Pathological evaluation of coronary lesions in cases of cardiac rupture during acute myocardial infarction: An autopsy study of 148 out-of-hospital sudden death cases

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-247

  Takada, Aya ^a,b   Saito, Kazuyuki ^a,b   Murai, Tatsuya ^a,b,c   Ro, Ayako ^b,d   Hamamatsu, Akihiko ^b  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

^c Sakakibara Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac rupture; Coronary artery; Coronary thrombus; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RUPTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOGENESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART RUPTURE, POST-INFARCTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 61649125124     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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