Thoracic Aortic Dissection in an 18-Year-Old Woman with no Risk Factors

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kim, Tae Eung ^a   Smith, Dustin D ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age; risk factors; thoracic aortic dissection

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; DOPAMINE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BACKACHE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BRADYCARDIC ARREST; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOID; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MENTAL HEALTH; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX SURGERY; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 77952550761     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.08.064     Document Type: Article

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