Acute myocardial infarction and rapid development of coronary aneurysms in a young woman - Unusual presentation of Takayasu arteritis?

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-63

  Araszkiewicz, Aleksander ^a   Prech, Marek ^a   Hrycaj, Pawel ^a   Lesiak, Maciej ^a   Grajek, Stefan ^a   Cieslinski, Andrzej ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Angiography; Complications; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE BB; CREATINE KINASE MB; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ENALAPRIL; FIBRINOGEN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; METOPROLOL; PREDNISONE; SIMVASTATIN; TROPONIN I; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AKINESIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; DIAPHORESIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUBSTERNAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847763663     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(07)70215-5     Document Type: Letter

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