Acute right coronary artery embolus after aortic valve surgery

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 367-368

  Abid Allah, Mouhcine ^a   Al Jubair, Khalid ^a  

^a PRINCE SULTAN CARDIAC CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTUBATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; LIVER PAIN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SINUS RHYTHM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STERNOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMBOLISM; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0036972923     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230201000425     Document Type: Article

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