Acute Myocardial Infarction from Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Cardiology in Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-9

  Leone, Francesca ^a,c   Macchiusi, Alfredo ^a   Ricci, Roberto ^b   Cerquetani, Elena ^c   Reynaud, Marcello ^a  

^a San Giovanni Evangelista Hospital   (Italy)

^b SPIRITO SANTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Acute coronary artery dissection; Acute myocardial infarction; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ATENOLOL; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; PAROXETINE;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTICOAGULANTS; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECURRENCE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0348140811     PISSN: 10615377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.crd.0000064425.00053.D5     Document Type: Article

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