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Intestinal cholesterol embolism resulting from intra-aortic balloon pumping: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Intra-aortic balloon pumping is used in elective percutaneous coronary intervention for increasing coronary blood flow. However, intra-aortic balloon pumping may decrease visceral blood flow and cause mesenteric ischemia by visceral artery obstruction. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the...

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Autores principales: Yamaguchi, Satoshi, Kakazu, Masanori, Osamu, Arasaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24951057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-213