Cardiac arrest secondary to type 2 Kounis syndrome resulting from urticaria and angioedema

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 568-569

  Connor, Suzy ^a   Child, Nick ^a   Burdon Jones, David ^a   Connor, Andrew ^a  

^a DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BISOPROLOL; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CLOPIDOGREL; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S INHIBITOR; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RAMIPRIL; SIMVASTATIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AMBULANCE; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BARE METAL STENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENT BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SOUND; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC AUTOIMMUNE URTICARIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTUBATION; KOUNIS SYNDROME TYPE 2; LIMB; LIP DISEASE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTVIRAL URTICARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SWELLING; THORAX PAIN; TRUNK; URTICARIA;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ANGIOEDEMA; ANGIOPLASTY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; HEART ARREST; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; URTICARIA;

EID: 77954171955     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.083238     Document Type: Article

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