Extensive involvement of the myocardium and the cardiac conduction system in a case of Wegener's granulomatosis

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-515

  Ohkawa, Shin Ichiro ^c   Miyao, Mariko ^a   Chida, Kouji ^a   Mizuuchi, Tomoko ^a   Kida, Kouzui ^a   Takubo, Kaiyo ^b   Ohtsubo, Kohichiro ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac involvement; Conduction system; Ventricular tachycardia; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; LIDOCAINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SKIN BIOPSY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0032828549     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.40.509     Document Type: Article

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