Daughter, you broke my heart: Accidental thrombosis at a muscular bridge

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 380-382

  Leon, Fernando ^a   Salazar, Hector ^a   Moreira, Wendel ^a   Angelini, Paolo ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Adrenergic discharge; Coronary vessel anomalies complications diagnosis physiology; Myocardial bridges; Myocardial ischemia; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DAUGHTER; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKINESIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; EXERTION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33750588034     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 07302347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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