Evolution to dilated cardiomyopathy from acute eosinophilic pancarditis in Churg-Strauss syndrome

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-48

  Terasaki, Fumio ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a   Hirota, Yuzo ^a   Okabe, Makoto ^a   Suwa, Michihiro ^a   Deguchi, Hirofumi ^a   Kitaura, Yasushi ^a   Kawamura, Keishiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Churg Strauss syndrome; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Endomyocardial biopsy; Hypereosinophilic heart disease

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; THROMBUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 0030864537     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01747501     Document Type: Article

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