Further insights into syndrome X

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 1865-1867

  Pizzi, Carmine ^a   Bugiardini, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; AZITHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; PRAVASTATIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; COXSACKIE VIRUS B4; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; SYNDROME X; THORAX PAIN; VASODILATATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA;

EID: 78649957579     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.206870     Document Type: Editorial

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