Spontaneous left main coronary artery dissection complicated by pseudoaneurysm formation in pregnancy: Role of CT coronary angiography

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rahman, Shahid ^b   Abdul Waheed, Mohammed ^b   Helmy, Tarek ^b   Huffman, Lynn C ^b   Koshal, Vipin ^b   Guitron, Julian ^b   Merrill, Walter H ^b   Lewis, David F ^b   Dunlap, Stephanie ^b   Shizukuda, Yukitaka ^b   Weintraub, Nealw F ^b   Meyer, Christopher ^b   Ciligiroglu, Mehmet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, FALSE; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65349110867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-4-15     Document Type: Article

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