Surgical removal of a left ventricular thrombus associated with cardiac sarcoidosis

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 333-335

  Kanemitsu, Shinji ^a   Miyake, Yoichiro ^a   Okabe, Manabu ^a  

^a Kochi Health Sciences Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac sarcoidosis; Cardiac surgery; Left ventricular thrombus

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART SARCOIDOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT VENTRICULAR THROMBUS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; THROMBUS;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREDNISOLONE; SARCOIDOSIS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 41849104517     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.171090     Document Type: Article

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