Successful surgical resection of infected left atrial myxoma in a case complicated with disseminated intravascular coagulation and multiple cerebral infarctions: Case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yoshioka, Daisuke ^a   Takahashi, Toshiki ^a   Ishizaka, Toru ^a   Higuchi, Takuya ^a  

^a OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79955827286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-68     Document Type: Article

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