Surgical treatment of a postpartal spontaneous left main coronary artery dissection

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-71

  Gasparovic, H ^a   Ugljen, R ^a   Coric, V ^a   Gosev, I ^a   Gasparovic, V ^a   Jelic, I ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Peripartum; Spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTPARTUM PERIOD;

EID: 32544433932     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-865830     Document Type: Article

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