Cardiac aspergillosis presenting as myocardial infarction

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 824-827

  Cishek, Mary Beth ^a,b   Yost, Barbara ^b   Schaefer, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

immunosuppression; infectious myocarditis; myocardial aspergillosis; myocardial necrosis; purulent pericarditis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0029852290     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960191012     Document Type: Article

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