Coronary artery fistula: Review of 54 cases from single center experience

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 278-286

  Canga, Yigit ^a   Ozcan, Kazim Serhan ^a   Emre, Ayse ^a   Kul, Seref ^a   Guvenc, Tolga Sinan ^a   Durmus, Gunduz ^a   Kirbas, Veli ^a   Ilhan, Erkan ^a   Karatas, Mehmet Baran ^a   Oz, Dilaver ^a   Terzi, Sait ^a   Yesilcimen, Kemal ^a  

^a Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Congenital anomaly; Congestive heart failure; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery fistulas; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TURKEY; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 84861969429     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/CJ.2012.0050     Document Type: Article

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