A patient of polymyositis with severe myocardial damage and conduction block

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 356-359

  Kuru, Satoshi ^a,b   Inukai, Akira ^a   Sobue, Gen ^a   Yasuma, Fumihiko ^b   Konagaya, Masaaki ^b   Matsuoka, Yukihiko ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SUZUKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

High dose steroid therapy; Myocardial damage; Pacemaker; Polymyositis; Trifascicular block

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOCARDITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 0033049498     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Askari AD : The heart in polymyositis and dermatomyositis. Mt Sinai J Med 55 : 479-482, 1988
2. Denbow CE, Lie JT, Tancredi RG, et al : Cardiac involvement in polymyositis. A clinicopathologic study of 20 autopsied patients. Arthritis Rheum 22 : 1088-1092, 1979
3. Lightfoot PR, Bharati S, Lev M : Chronic dermatomyositis with intermittent trifascicular block. An electrophysiologic-conduction system correlation. Chest 71 : 413-416, 1977
4. Henderson A, Cumming WJK, Williams DO, et al Cardiac complications of polymyositis. J Neurol Sci 47 : 425-428, 1980
5. Haupt HM, Hutchins GM : The heart and cardiac conduction system in polymyositis-dermatomyositis : a clinicopathologic study of 16 autopsied patients. Am J Cardiol 50 : 998-1006, 1982
6. Bohan A, Peter JB, Bowman RL, et al : A computer-assisted analysis of 153 patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis. Medicine 56 : 255-286, 1977
7. Stern R, Godbold JH, Chess Q, et al : ECG abnormalities in polymyositis. Arch Intern Med 144 : 2185-2189, 1984