Heparin therapy for myocardial infarction: An unusual trigger for pituitary apoplexy

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 314, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 351-353

  Oo, Maung Maung ^a   Krishna, Arvind Y ^a   Bonavita, Gregory J ^a   Rutecki, Gregory W ^a,b  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Affiliated Hospitals at Canton   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Myocardial infarction; Pituitary adenocarcinoma; Pituitary apoplexy

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; HEPARIN; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPITUITARISM; INCIDENCE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSORY SYSTEM; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY;

EID: 0342276064     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199711000-00016     Document Type: Article

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