Case of the month: Right coronary artery dissection following sports-related blunt trauma

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 580-581

  Hobelmann, A ^a   Pham, J C ^a   Hsu, Edbert B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SPORT INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BASKETBALL; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANEURYSM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33748084687     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.034595     Document Type: Article

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