Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 17-2004. A 42-year-old woman with cardiac arrest several weeks after an ankle fracture

N Engl J Med. 2004 May 27;350(22):2281-90. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc049008.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Acute Kidney Injury
  • Adult
  • Ankle Injuries / complications
  • Anticoagulants / therapeutic use*
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Fibrinolytic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Fractures, Bone / complications
  • Heart Arrest / etiology*
  • Heart Arrest / therapy
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Embolism / complications
  • Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / drug therapy
  • Radiography
  • Venous Thrombosis / diagnosis
  • Venous Thrombosis / drug therapy
  • Venous Thrombosis / etiology

Substances

  • Anticoagulants
  • Fibrinolytic Agents