Cardiac tamponade due to rupture of coronary artery fistulas with a giant aneurysm containing a free floating ball thrombus: A case report

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-76

  Iwasawa, Yuji ^a   Kitamura, Yutaka ^a   Higuma, Kikuhiko ^a   Ono, Fumiaki ^a   Imoto, Kiyotaka ^b   Kimura, Kazuo ^b  

^a YOKOSUKA KYOSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysms; Cardiac tamponade; Coronary vessels (coronary artery fistula); Thrombosis (floating thrombus)

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; PULMONARY ARTERY TUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; VASCULAR TUMOR; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PULMONARY ARTERY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ARTERIO-ARTERIAL FISTULA; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 34548154299     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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