Successful percutaneous treatment of suspected embolic left main thrombosis in a patient with a mechanical aortic valve

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Patel, Mitul ^a   Bhangoo, Munveer ^a   Prasad, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

PCI; STEMI; total occlusion

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; DOPAMINE; EPTIFIBATIDE; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA BALLOON; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80655143415     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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