A case of acute pulmonary embolism and acute myocardial infarction with suspected paradoxical embolism after laparoscopic surgery

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 197-200

  Uchida, Shinji ^a   Yamamoto, Mika ^a   Masaoka, Yoshiko ^a   Mikouchi, Hiroshi ^a   Nishizaki, Yoshitomo ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Paradoxical embolism; Patent foramen ovale; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0033374965     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02482307     Document Type: Article

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