Cardiac CT and MRI guide surgery in impending left ventricular rupture after acute myocardial infarction

We report the case of a 67 year-old patient who presented with worsening chest pain and shortness of breath, four days post acute myocardial infarction. Contrast enhanced computed tomography of the chest ruled out a pulmonary embolus but revealed an unexpected small subepicardial aneurysm (SEA) in t...

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Autores principales: Vogel-Claussen, Jens, Skrok, Jan, Fishman, Elliot K, Lima, João AC, Shah, Ashish S, Bluemke, David A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19674451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-42

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19674451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-42

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