Fulminant liver failure: An indicator of silent myocardial rupture

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 947, 2004, Pages 553-554

  Szawarski, P ^a   Sensky, P R ^b,c   Doshi, M ^a   Hudson, I ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S MILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RUPTURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; THORAX DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RUPTURE, POST-INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 4644287819     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2003.014654     Document Type: Article

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