Acute myocardial infarction caused by "malignant" anomalous right coronary artery detected by multidetector row computed tomography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1564-1567

  Ichikawa, Minoru ^a   Komatsu, Sei ^b   Asanuma, Hiroshi ^a   Iwata, Akio ^a   Ishiko, Tamayo ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^b   Lim, Young Jae ^a   Kodama, Kazuhisa ^b   Mishima, Masayoshi ^a  

^a KAWACHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Anomalous coronary artery; Multidetector row CT; Plaque map

Indexed keywords

MONTEPLASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 28544446189     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.1564     Document Type: Article

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