American Heart Journal
Volume 148, Issue 5 , Pages 783-788 , November 2004

Detection of increased temperature of the culprit lesion after recent myocardial infarction: The favorable effect of statins

  • Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Dr. Konstantinos Toutouzas, Hippokration Hospital, Cardiology, 24 Karaoli and Dimitriou str, Holargos, Athens 15562, Greece
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  • Sophia Vaina, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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  • Eleftherios Tsiamis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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  • Manolis Vavuranakis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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  • John Mitropoulos, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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  • Eirini Bosinakou, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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  • Pavlos Toutouzas, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
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  • Christodoulos Stefanadis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Received 10 September 2003 ,Accepted 2 May 2004.

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PII: S0002-8703(04)00261-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2004.05.013

American Heart Journal
Volume 148, Issue 5 , Pages 783-788 , November 2004

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