Cardiac arrest in a soccer player: A unique case of anomalous coronary origin detected by 16-row multislice computed tomography coronary angiography

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 116-119

  Karadag, Bilgehan ^a   Spieker, Lukas E ^a   Wildermuth, Simon ^a   Boehm, Thomas ^a   Corti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Coronary angiography; Exercise; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCCER; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 20344405247     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-004-0785-5     Document Type: Article

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