Silent pulmonary artery dissection in a patient with Eisenmenger syndrome due to ventricular septal defect: A case report

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-37

  Ejima, Koichiro ^a,b   Uchida, Tatsuro ^a   Hen, Yasuki ^a   Nishio, Yukiko ^a   Nomoto, Fumiko ^a   Uchida, Yoshie ^a   Suzuki, Akira ^a   Sato, Takahiro ^a   Tanino, Shunsuke ^a  

^a Sendai Cardiovascular Center   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography, transthoracic; Heart defects, congenital; Heart defects, echocardiography; Pulmonary artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RARE DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 23344438735     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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