Acute myocardial infarction in an 80 year-old woman caused by left main occlusion with concomitant chronic total occlusions of right and left coronary artery: Successful treatment with percutaneous revascularization

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 568-572

  Grygier, Marek ^a   Araszkiewicz, Aleksander ^a   Lesiak, Maciej ^a   Grajek, Stefan ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Left main coronary artery occlusion; Myocardial infarction; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENOXAPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; AKINESIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DIAPHORESIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG CONGESTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REVASCULARIZATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINUS RHYTHM; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY OCCLUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; METALS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 74249101318     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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