Acute myocardial infarction caused by coronary embolization of a papillary fibroelastoma of the thoracic ascending aorta

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 676-677

  Rolf, Tanina ^a   Iglesias, Juan F ^a   Tozzi, Piergiorgio ^a   von Segesser, Ludwig K ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic mass; Myocardial infarction; Papillary fibroelastoma

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY REPERFUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOKINESIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PAPILLOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78149481373     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.244772     Document Type: Article

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