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Relationship between reduced elasticity of extracardiac vessels and left main stem coronary artery disease

Author(s) -

Thomas Weber

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.05.032

Subject(s) - medicine , coronary artery disease , cardiology , elasticity (physics) , cad , artery , ex vivo , in vivo , materials science , engineering drawing , engineering , composite material , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

To the Editor,With great interest we read the study on reduced vessel elasticity in left main stem (LMS) coronary artery disease (CAD) by Hadjinikolaou et al., published recently in the Eur Heart J .1 The authors elegantly showed, by careful ex vivo experiments, that the elasticity of extracardiac arteries and veins is impaired in patients with LMS-CAD compared to non-LMS CAD.These findings are …

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