Imaging a large unsuspected sinus of valsalva aneurysm dissecting into the interventricular septum

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1387-1389

  Vetrugno, Luigi ^a   Bassi, Flavio ^a   Giordano, Francesco ^a   Livi, Ugolino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA SINUS ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA SINUS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DYSPNEA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART SURGERY; HYPOTENSION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MALE; SINUS OF VALSALVA; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION; VENTRICULAR SEPTUM;

EID: 42449096399     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31816847d5     Document Type: Article

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