Myocardial ischaemia without obstructive coronary artery disease in rheumatoid arthritis: Hypothesis-generating insights from a cross-sectional study

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-80

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Sfikakis, Petros P ^b   Karanasos, Antonios ^a   Aggeli, Constantina ^a   Felekos, Ioannis ^a   Kitas, George ^b   Zampeli, Evi ^b   Protogerou, Athanase ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk; Coronary angiography; Diabetes mellitus; Dobutamine stress contrast echocardiography; Myocardial ischaemia; Optical coherence tomography; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84871126791     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes349     Document Type: Article

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