Left ventricular thrombus and embolic stroke caused by a functional paraganglioma

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 734-737

  Buchbinder, Neil A ^a   Yu, Run ^a   Rosenbloom, Barry E ^a   Sherman, C T ^b   Silberman, Allan W ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Private Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; ENOXAPARIN; ESMOLOL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; INFUSION FLUID; LABETALOL; NORMETADRENALIN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; TROPONIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEADACHE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY INFARCTION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAGANGLIOMA; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; RETROPERITONEAL CYST; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T WAVE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOMITING;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFARCTION; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; KIDNEY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAGANGLIOMA; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70949108246     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2009.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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