Life-threatening left main stenosis induced by compression from a dilated pulmonary artery

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-187

  Tespili, Maurizio ^a   Saino, Antonio ^a   Personeni, Davide ^a   Silvestro, Antonio ^a   Scopelliti, Pasquale ^a   Banfi, Carlo ^b  

^a BOLOGNINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Left main coronary artery stenosis; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Pulmonary artery dilatation

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; INOTROPIC AGENT; TROPONIN I;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGINA PECTORIS; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT; VASODILATATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECURRENCE; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATION;

EID: 65549087099     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e32831e3f9c     Document Type: Article

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