Coronary artery ectasia is related to coronary slow flow and inflammatory activation

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 636-640

  Brunetti, Natale Daniele ^a   Salvemini, Giuseppe ^a   Cuculo, Andrea ^a   Ruggiero, Antonio ^a   De Gennaro, Luisa ^a   Gaglione, Antonio ^a   Di Biase, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary artery ectasia; Coronary flow; Cytokines; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84896279455     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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