Slow coronary flow: Clinical and histopathological features in patients with otherwise normal epicardial coronary arteries

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 375-381

  Mangieri, Enrico ^a   Macchiarelli, Guido ^b   Ciavolella, Massimo ^b   Barillà, Francesco ^b   Avella, Andrea ^b   Martinotti, Alessandra ^b   Dell'Italia, Louis J ^b   Scibilia, Giovanni ^b   Motta, Pietro ^b   Campa, Pietro Paolo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

coronary angiogram; coronary flow; myocardial biopsy; small vessel disease

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GLYCOGEN;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACORONARY INFUSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 9044235770     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199604)37:4<375::AID-CCD7>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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