Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema

Coronary artery embolism is as an infrequent but important cause of acute myocardial infarction. We present a rare case of a large saddle embolism in the coronary vasculature which led to an acute myocardial infarction and consequently flash pulmonary edema. Despite intensive medical management, our...

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Autor principal: Ahmad, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7472921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32913700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101160
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description Coronary artery embolism is as an infrequent but important cause of acute myocardial infarction. We present a rare case of a large saddle embolism in the coronary vasculature which led to an acute myocardial infarction and consequently flash pulmonary edema. Despite intensive medical management, our patient did not survive.
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spelling pubmed-74729212020-09-09 Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema Ahmad, Ali Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Coronary artery embolism is as an infrequent but important cause of acute myocardial infarction. We present a rare case of a large saddle embolism in the coronary vasculature which led to an acute myocardial infarction and consequently flash pulmonary edema. Despite intensive medical management, our patient did not survive. Elsevier 2020-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7472921/ /pubmed/32913700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101160 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema
title_full Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema
title_fullStr Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema
title_full_unstemmed Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema
title_short Saddle coronary embolism precipitates flash pulmonary edema
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7472921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32913700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101160
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