Sex-Based Differences in Acute Coronary Syndromes Insights from Invasive and Noninvasive Coronary Technologies

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 451-464

  Chandrasekhar, Jaya ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndrome; endothelial dysfunction; fractional flow reserve; intravascular ultrasound; invasive coronary imaging; nonatherosclerotic mechanisms; nonobstructive disease; optical coherence tomography; sex based differences

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; ROSUVASTATIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84962141547     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.02.004     Document Type: Review

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