Acute left main coronary artery thrombosis due to cocaine use

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Apostolakis, Efstratios ^a   Tsigkas, Grigorios ^a   Baikoussis, Nikolaos G ^a   Koniari, Ioanna ^a   Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; STREET DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COCAINE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 77955679698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-5-65     Document Type: Article

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