Spontaneous right coronary artery dissection: Causing myocardial infarction in a 36-year-old woman

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-98

  Klein, Joshua ^a   Hakimian, Justin ^a   Makaryus, Amgad N ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary vessels pathology; Dissection; Female; Rupture, spontaneous complications physiopathology

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; CORONARY STENT; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THORAX PAIN; THROMBECTOMY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866565147     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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