Exercise-induced spastic coronary artery occlusion at the site of a moderate stenosis: Neither Prinzmetal's Angina nor cardiac syndrome X but "prinzmetal X"

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Yilmaz, Ali ^a   Hill, Stephan ^a   Schäufele, Tim ^a   Vöhringer, Matthias ^a   Geissler, Angela ^a   Sechtem, Udo ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRINZMETAL ANGINA PECTORIS; PRINZMETAL X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SYNDROME X;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA;

EID: 78650705184     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.984823     Document Type: Article

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