Cardiac cephalalgia: Case reports and review

Cephalalgia

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 892-896

  Wei, J H ^a,b,d   Wang, H F ^c  

^a Taichung Metro Harbor Hospital   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MIN SHENG GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Min sheng General Hospital ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute st segment elevation myocardial infarction; Anginal headache; Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Cardiac cephalalgia; Coronary artery disease; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial ischaemia

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; PETHIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC CEPHALALGIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; META ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 51649096738     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: 14682982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2008.01590.x     Document Type: Article

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