Coronary artery calcification: Pathophysiology, epidemiology, imaging methods, and clinical implications. A statement for health professionals from the American Heart Association

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1175-1192

  Wexler, Lewis ^a   Brundage, Bruce ^b   Crouse, John ^b   Detrano, Robert ^b   Fuster, Valentin ^b   Maddahi, Jamshid ^b   Rumberger, John ^b   Stanford, William ^b   White, Richard ^b   Taubert, Kathryn ^b  

^a AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOCALCIN;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CALCIFICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; MINERALIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOBLAST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 9544249488     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.5.1175     Document Type: Review

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