Cardiac tamponade mimicking ventricular rupture after thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 417-418

  Imperadore, F ^a   Spagnolli, W ^b   Martinelli, L ^c   Musuraca, G ^a   De Girolamo, P ^a   Maines, M ^a   Vergara, G ^a  

^a Ospedale S Maria del Carmine   (Italy)

^b S Lorenzo Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; LETTER; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; RUPTURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART RUPTURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITROGLYCERIN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0142152724     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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