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Author(s):
Kazuma Ohyama
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Yasuharu Matsumoto
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Hiroaki Shimokawa
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3 years ago
Coronary Artery Spasm and Adventitial Inflammation
Coronary artery spasm plays an important role in the pathogenesis of a wide range of ischaemic heart disease, not only in variant angina, but also in other forms of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction.1,2 Recent studies have demonstrated that coronary spasm is also as frequently noted in European people as in Asian people.3
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Author(s):
Kensuke Nishimiya
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Jun Takahashi
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Kazuma Oyama
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10 months ago
Author(s):
Shigeo Godo
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Jun Takahashi
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Satoshi Yasuda
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et al
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3 years ago
Author(s):
Jun Takahashi
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Akira Suda
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Kensuke Nishimiya
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et al
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2 years ago
Author(s):
Roos ET van der Meer
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Angela Maas
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2 years ago
Author(s):
Kensuke Nishimiya
,
Yasuharu Matsumoto
,
Hiroaki Shimokawa
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3 years ago
Vasa Vasorum
The coronary arterial wall generally consists of the tunica intima, tunica media and tunica adventitia. In particular, the coronary adventitia harbours the vasa vasorum (VV),which has a diameter of 50–300 μm and plays an important role as a network of nutrient blood vessels to the arterial wall (Figure 1).1–3
The VV is enhanced in association with arterial wall thickening when the…
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Author(s):
Shigeo Godo
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Jun Takahashi
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Takashi Shiroto
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et al
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1 year ago
Inflammation in Diabetes
Author(s):
Sotirios Tsalamandris
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Alexios S Antonopoulos
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Evangelos Oikonomou
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et al
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Maria Teresa Bayo Jimenez
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Omar Hahad
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Marin Kuntic
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1 year ago
Author(s):
Daniel Alejandro Lerman
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Nasri Alotti
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Kiddy Levente Ume
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et al
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3 years ago
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is still a major public health problem worldwide, causing high rates of morbidity and mortality. In the United States, nearly one million patients suffer from AMI each year.1 In the UK, around 80,000 people died from coronary heart disease (CHD) in 2010.2
The current approach to the treatment of myocardial infarction involves early revascularisation with…
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