Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Page 511 , May 2010

Embolic occlusion of the aorta caused by cardiac myxoma

  • Jian-Hsiung Tsao

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hong-Chang Lo

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chorng-Kuang How

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Emergency Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Rd, Taipei 112, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 28757377; fax: +886 2 28738013.
    • ,
  • David Hung-Tsang Yen

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chun-I Huang

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan

Received 8 January 2010 ,Revised 16 January 2010 ,Accepted 18 January 2010.

References 

  1. Reynen K. Cardiac myxomas. N Engl J Med. 1995;333:1610–1617
  2. Horn KD, Becich MJ, Rhee RY, et al. Left atrial myxoma with embolization presenting as an acute infrarenal aortic occlusion. J Vasc Surg. 1997;26:341–345

PII: S0300-9572(10)00075-4

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.026

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Page 511 , May 2010

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