A Man with Coronary Artery Disease, Peripheral Vascular Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease, and Abdominal Pain and Distention

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2147-2155

  Kelsey, Peter B ^a   Chen, Steven ^a   Lauwers, Gregory Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIGOXIN; DOCUSATE SODIUM; HEPARIN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; METOPROLOL; NEOSTIGMINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; POLYSTYRENESULFONATE SODIUM; SALBUTAMOL; SIMVASTATIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRIAMCINOLONE; WARFARIN; CATION EXCHANGE RESIN; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; POLYSTYRENESULFONIC ACID; SORBITOL;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRONCHOSPASM; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FOREARM; GANGRENE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILEUS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SIDE EFFECT; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AORTOGRAPHY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COLON; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS; ILIAC ARTERY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; ISCHEMIA; NECROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; CATION EXCHANGE RESINS; COLON; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; ILEUS; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NECROSIS; POLYSTYRENES; SORBITOL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0642275119     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030031     Document Type: Article

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