Coronary ultrasound (ICUS) detects left main coronary dissection after blunt chest trauma: Case report and a review of the literature;Diagnosi con ecocardiografia intravascolare (ICUS) di dissezione coronarica post-traumatica coinvolgente il tronco comune. Descrizione di un caso e revisione della letteratura

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1034-1037

  Morocutti, Giorgio ^a,b   Spedicato, Leonardo ^a   Vendrametto, Fauzia ^b   Bernardi, Guglielmo ^a  

^a Laboratorio di Emodinamica   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Intracoronary ultrasound (ICUS); Spontaneous coronary dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VEIN GRAFT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032853766     PISSN: 00465968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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