Surgical resection of a lupus-related left ventricular aneurysm in a patient with normal coronary arteries: Case report

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-102

  Samuels, Louis E ^a   Spangler, William D ^b   Goel, Inder ^b  

^a LANKENAU HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; STEROID; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34247218144     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20041151     Document Type: Article

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