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Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache

We report a very rare case of a patient who presented with headache as the sole symptom of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The patient underwent primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty followed by drug-eluting stent implantation and the headache was immediately relieved. The pathophysiologic...

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Autores principales: Chatzizisis, Yiannis S, Saravakos, Panagiotis, Boufidou, Amalia, Parharidou, Despoina, Styliadis, Ioannis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20922050
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401004010148
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author Chatzizisis, Yiannis S
Saravakos, Panagiotis
Boufidou, Amalia
Parharidou, Despoina
Styliadis, Ioannis
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description We report a very rare case of a patient who presented with headache as the sole symptom of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The patient underwent primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty followed by drug-eluting stent implantation and the headache was immediately relieved. The pathophysiologic explanation of the occurrence of headache as a sole manifestation of an AMI is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29481522010-10-04 Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache Chatzizisis, Yiannis S Saravakos, Panagiotis Boufidou, Amalia Parharidou, Despoina Styliadis, Ioannis Open Cardiovasc Med J Article We report a very rare case of a patient who presented with headache as the sole symptom of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The patient underwent primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty followed by drug-eluting stent implantation and the headache was immediately relieved. The pathophysiologic explanation of the occurrence of headache as a sole manifestation of an AMI is discussed. Bentham Open 2010-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2948152/ /pubmed/20922050 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401004010148 Text en © Chatzizisis et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache
title Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache
title_full Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache
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title_full_unstemmed Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache
title_short Acute Myocardial Infarction Manifested with Headache
title_sort acute myocardial infarction manifested with headache
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948152/
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