Eosinophilic myocarditis manifesting as myocardial infarctionearly diagnosis and successful treatment

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 603-610

  Galiuto, Leonarda ^a   Enriquez Sarano, Maurice ^a   Reeder, Guy S ^a   Tazelaar, Henry D ^b   Li, James T C ^b   Miller Jr , Fletcher A ^c   Gleich, Gerald J ^c  

^a Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MORPHINE; OXYGEN; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ASYNERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 0030836425     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/72.7.603     Document Type: Article

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