Sudden cardiac arrest: Associated with anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left main coronary artery

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 539-543

  Jo, Yusuke ^a   Uranaka, Yasuko ^a   Iwaki, Hideyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Jun ^a   Koura, Takahiro ^a   Negishi, Koji ^a   Angelini, Paolo ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA MUNICIPAL CITIZEN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac Prevention control; Coronary angiography; Coronary vessel anomalies diagnosis phys physiopathology surgery; Death; Replantation; Risk assessment; Sinus of Valsalva Abnormalities Surgery; Sudden; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SINUS; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTIC FIBER; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROVOCATION TEST; PULMONARY ARTERY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83455206863     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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