A case of spontaneous coronary artery dissection healed by medical treatment: Serial findings of coronary angiography, intravascular ultrasound and multi-detector computed tomography

Korean Circulation Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 346-348

  Koh, Jin Sin ^a   Jeong, Young Hoon ^a   Yoon, Seong Eun ^a   Park, Jeong Rang ^a   Park, Yongwhi ^a   Hwang, Seok Jae ^a   Kwak, Choong Hwan ^a   Hwang, Jin Yong ^a  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary artery disease; Dissection; Interventional; Myocardial infarction; Tomography, spiral computed; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BISOPROLOL; CHOLESTEROL; CLOPIDOGREL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; DILTIAZEM; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TROPONIN I; VALSARTAN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 79960571648     PISSN: 17385520     EISSN: 17385555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4070/kcj.2011.41.6.346     Document Type: Article

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