Fatal left main coronary artery embolism from aortic valve endocarditis following cardiac catheterization

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 74-77

  Shamsham, Fadi ^a   Safi, Arshad M ^a   Pomerenko, Igor ^a   Salciccioli, Louis ^a   Feit, Alan ^a   Clark, Luther T ^a   Alam, Mahmood ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve endocarditis; Cardiac catheterization; Coronary embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDITIS; FATALITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH;

AORTIC VALVE; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034017563     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(200005)50:1<74::AID-CCD16>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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