Prevalence of patent foramen ovale in patients with acute myocardial infarction and angiographically normal coronary arteries

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1368-1370

  Crump, Randy ^c   Shandling, Adrian H ^a,b   Van Natta, Bruce ^a,b   Ellestad, Myrvin ^a,b  

^a Memorial Heart & Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MALE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVASCULAR ANGINA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034212368     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(00)00772-4     Document Type: Article

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