Aortic dissection after sildenafil-induced erection [11]

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1151-1152

  Nachtnebel, Anna ^a   Stöllberger, Claudia ^a   Ehrlich, Marek ^b   Finsterer, Josef ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b Allgemeines Krankenhaus

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; DIGITOXIN; DIOSMIN; FLAVONOID; ISOSORBIDE 5 NITRATE; PHENPROCOUMON; RANITIDINE; SILDENAFIL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; PENIS ERECTION; VOMITING;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES;

EID: 33750342043     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000240732.65859.aa     Document Type: Letter

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