We report a patient with an undiagnosed left sinus of Valsalva aneurysm who, during a dobutamine stress test, had myocardial injury and subsequent infarction. Cardiac catheterization revealed an expanding sinus of valsalva aneurysm compressing the circumflex coronary artery. The clinical manifestati
Acute Myocardial Infarction Caused by Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm
β Scribed by Franck LaPorte; Christine Selton-Suty; Laurent Bonnemains; Laurent Groben
- Book ID
- 109211442
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0742-2822
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