Echocardiographic observation of acute myocarditis with systemic lupus erythematosus

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 144-146

  Ueda, Takashi ^a   Mizushige, Katsufumi ^a   Aoyama, Tohru ^a   Tokuda, Michiaki ^a   Kiyomoto, Hideyasu ^a   Matsuo, Hirohide ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic densitometry; Echocardiography; Myocarditis; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FUROSEMIDE; LOPRINONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MYOCARDITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MYOCARDITIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STEROIDS;

EID: 0034053525     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.144     Document Type: Article

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