Complete aortic occlusion caused by cardiac myxoma emboli

  • Neff, Christian M. MD
  • McCowan, Christy L. MD

  • University Health Care, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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Received for publication June 1, 2007; accepted June 22, 2007

American Journal of Emergency Medicine 26(1):p 110e1-110e2, January 2008.

A 45-year-old woman was sleeping in the passenger seat of a semitruck driven by her husband when she awoke suddenly, complained of excruciating chest and abdominal pain, and slumped onto the floor of the cab. The patient had been previously healthy with no pertinent past medical, social, or family history.

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