Association of coronary atherosclerotic burden with clinical presentation and prognosis in patients with stable and unstable coronary artery disease

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1003-1011

  Ndrepepa, Gjin ^a   Tada, Tomohisa ^a   Fusaro, Massimiliano ^a   Cassese, Salvatore ^a   King, Lamin ^a   Hadamitzky, Martin ^a   Haase, Hans Ullrich ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a,b   Kastrati, Adnan ^a   Pache, Jürgen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Mortality; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Unstable angina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENSINI SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84871927180     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-012-0490-9     Document Type: Article

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