Coronary artery spasm and ventricular arrhythmias

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 1042, 2012, Pages 465-471

  Looi, Khang Li ^a   Grace, Andrew ^a   Agarwal, Sharad ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISOPROLOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; NITRATE; TIROFIBAN; TROPONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NOSE INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QT INTERVAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNCOPE; T WAVE INVERSION; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84864098958     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130494     Document Type: Article

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