Pathogenesis of vascular complications in Cushing's syndrome

Hormones

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-30

  Miljic, Predrag ^a   Miljic, Dragana ^a   Cain, Joshua William ^b   Korbonits, Márta ^b   Popovic, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cushing's syndrome; Hypercoagulability; Vascular complications

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; THROMBIN; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ATHEROTHROMBOSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERVISCOSITY SYNDROME; MORTALITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOPHILIA; THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84859089421     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03401535     Document Type: Review

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