Metal allergy, atrial septal occluder devices and the risk of kounis syndrome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2087-2088

  Kounis, Nicholas G ^a   Kounis, George N ^a   Koutsojannis, Constantinos ^a   Tsigkas, Grigorios ^a   Almpanis, George ^a   Mazarakis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHEMOKINE; CLOPIDOGREL; CYTOKINE; HISTAMINE; NEUTRAL PROTEINASE; NICKEL; PREDNISONE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ASTHENIA; ATRIAL SEPTUM OCCLUDER DEVICE; BRONCHOSPASM; CELL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DERMATITIS; DEVICE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXERTIONAL DYSPNEA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KOUNIS SYNDROME; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAST CELL; METAL ALLERGY; MIGRAINE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SKIN TEST; STENT THROMBOSIS; SYNDROME; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION;

DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; NICKEL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; SYNDROME;

EID: 78649400082     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.076     Document Type: Letter

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