Long-term prognosis of non-interventionally followed patients with isolated myocardial bridge and severe systolic compression of the left anterior descending coronary artery

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 454-457

  Ural, Ertan ^a   Bildirici, Ulas ^a   Çelikyurt, Umut ^a   Kilic, Teoman ^a   Sahin, Tayfun ^a   Acar, Eser ^a   Kahraman, Göksel ^a   Ural, Dilek ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLE; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69249122542     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20570     Document Type: Article

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