Death caused by splenic artery aneurysm rupture during dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography: Case report and literature review

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-95

  Klaas, James P ^a   Diller, Christina L ^a   Harmon, James V ^a   Skarda, David E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

DASE; Death; Dobutamine atropine stress echocardiography; Splenic artery aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; DOBUTAMINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATING ROOM; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ATROPINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLENIC ARTERY;

EID: 58149184060     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00755.x     Document Type: Article

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