Subacute left ventricle free wall rupture after acute myocardial infarction: Awareness of the clinical signs and early use of echocardiography may be life-saving

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Raposo, Luís ^a   Andrade, Maria João ^a   Ferreira, Jorge ^a   Aguiar, Carlos ^a   Couto, Rute ^a   Abecasis, Miguel ^a   Canada, Manuel ^a   Jalles Tavares, Nuno ^b   Da Silva, José Aniceto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA CRUZ   (Portugal)

^b Ressonância Magnética Caselas Bairro de Caselas ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RUPTURE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

AGED; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL RUPTURE;

EID: 33751574233     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-4-46     Document Type: Article

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