Eisenmenger syndrome: A case of survival after ventricular tachycardia due to inferior myocardial infarction in a 48-year-old patient with congenital large ventricular septal defect

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 822-824

  Passarani, Simonetta ^a,b   Vignati, Gabriele ^a   Einaudi, Arturo ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eisenmenger syndrome; Myocardial infarction; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN; LIDOCAINE; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM; PROSTACYCLIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESUSCITATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURVIVAL TIME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242802250     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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