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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0120-5633</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Colombiana de Cardiología]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Col. Cardiol.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0120-5633</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Colombiana de Cardiologia. Oficina de Publicaciones]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S0120-56332005000400006</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Trombo en la aorta torácica ascendente como causa de infarto del miocardio en el paciente joven]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Thrombus in the thoracic ascending aorta as a cause of myocardial infarction in a young patient]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hamdan]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Nabil]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Castro]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pablo]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Calderón]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Luis I]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Gómez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Germán]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Estrada]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gilberto]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hurtado]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Édgar]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Echeverría]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[René]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A01"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="A01">
<institution><![CDATA[,Fundación Clínica Abood Shaio Departamento de Hemodinamia y Cardiología Intervencionista ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>12</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>88</fpage>
<lpage>92</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0120-56332005000400006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0120-56332005000400006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0120-56332005000400006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[El infarto del miocardio en el adulto joven (menor de 45 años), tiene una incidencia del 2% al 6% del total de los infartos. El principal factor etiológico asociado es la aterosclerosis hasta en el 80%; en el 20% restante se hallan otras causas menos comunes (1). A continuación se presenta el caso clínico de un paciente joven con infarto agudo del miocardio con supradesnivel del ST-T por embolización del trombo al tronco coronario izquierdo, desde un trombo localizado en la aorta torácica ascendente, y a quien se le practicó trombectomía quirúrgica.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Myocardial infarction in a young adult (less than 45 years old) has an incidence of 2% to 6% from the total of infarcts. The main etiological associated factor is atherosclerosis in up to 80% of the cases, being the remaining 20% far less common factors (1). We describe the clinical case of a young patient who presented a myocardial infarction with ST-T high underlevel due to thromboembolism to the left coronary trunk, from a thrombus localized in the ascendant thoracic aorta and to whom a surgical thrombectomy was performed.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[infarto del miocardio]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[embolectomia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Fogarthy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[myocardial infarction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[embolectomy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Fogarthy]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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