Intramural Left Atrial Hematoma after Aortocoronary Artery Surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1605-1607

  Musat, Iulian ^a,c   Hieber, Cornelia ^a   Kepka, Anton ^a   Novotny, Petrus ^a   Poslussny, Peter ^a   Schwarz, Sylvia ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Robert D ^a,b  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c Dept of Anesthesia/Intensive Care ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344851932     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000085641.90506.70     Document Type: Article

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