Cardiac magnetic resonance detection of left ventricular thrombus in acute myocardial infarction

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-16

  Lanzillo, Chiara ^a   Di Roma, Mauro ^b   Sciahbasi, Alessandro ^c   Minati, Monia ^a   Maresca, Luciano ^a   Pendenza, Gianluca ^a   Romagnoli, Enrico ^a   Summaria, Francesco ^a   Patrizi, Roberto ^a   Di Luozzo, Marco ^d   Preziosi, Paolo ^a   Lioy, Ernesto ^a   Romeo, Francesco ^d  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SANDRO PERTINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Left ventricular thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPERFUSION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; THROMBOSIS; TICLOPIDINE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; WARFARIN;

EID: 84874165796     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482941.2012.741248     Document Type: Article

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