Medical therapy in peripheral artery disease

Circulation

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 491-500

  Berger, Jeffrey S ^a   Hiatt, William R ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; CARNITINE; CILOSTAZOL; CLOPIDOGREL; DEVELOPMENTALLY REGULATED ENDOTHELIAL LOCUS 1; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MILRINONE; NAFTIDROFURYL; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PICOTAMIDE; PLACEBO; POLOXAMER; PROPIONYLCARNITINE; RIFALAZIL; SCATTER FACTOR; SCLEROPROTEIN; SIMVASTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN 121; VASCULOTROPIN 165; WARFARIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CELL THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EXERCISE; FEVER; GENE THERAPY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB ISCHEMIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THROMBOSIS; ULCER HEALING;

EXERCISE THERAPY; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; TISSUE THERAPY;

EID: 84864238156     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.033886     Document Type: Article

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