Association between preinfarction angina and coronary artery ectasia in the acute myocardial infarction

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-514

  Karabulut, Ahmet ^a   Çakmak, Mahmut ^a   Uzunlar, Bulent ^a  

^a Istanbul Medicine Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary ectasia; Myocardial infarction; Preinfarction angina

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINOSE STATE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; CORONARY REPERFUSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 80051967420     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.66.4.2126601     Document Type: Article

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