Acute coronary syndrome caused by coronary artery mycotic aneurysm due to late stent infection localized with radiolabeled autologous leukocyte imaging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 753-755

  Garg, Nadish ^a   Garg, Rajeev ^a   Gordon, Christensen ^a   Singh, Rachandeep ^a   Singh, Amalok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary artery aneurysm; Late stent infection; Multi modality imaging

Indexed keywords

INDIUM 111;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; DEVICE INFECTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANEURYSM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; STENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 73449143527     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181b7dbc7     Document Type: Article

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