Cardiac involvement in rheumatoid disease

Clinical Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 18-21

  Kitas, George ^a,b   Banks, Matthew J ^a   Bacon, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b The Guest Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, RESTRICTIVE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0035235807     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.1-1-18     Document Type: Article

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