Non-Q wave acute myocardial infarction in acute meningococcemia in a 10- year-old girl

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-38

  Briassoulis, George ^a   Kalabalikis, Panajiotis ^a   Thanopoulos, Vasilis ^a   Hatzis, Tassos ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Meningococcemia; Myocardial infarction; Septic shock; Troponin I

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; TROPONIN I;

EID: 0033976343     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006565-200002000-00011     Document Type: Article

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