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Gender differences in the prevalence of coronary artery tortuosity and its association with coronary artery disease

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the significance of severe coronary tortuosity (SCT) despite it being a relatively common finding on coronary angiography. We examined whether the presence of tortuosity was influenced by gender or cardiac risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined 870 patients...

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Autores principales: Chiha, Joseph, Mitchell, Paul, Gopinath, Bamini, Burlutsky, George, Kovoor, Pramesh, Thiagalingam, Aravinda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28616559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2016.11.005