Giant-cell myocarditis without a symptom of heart failure seen in a patient with myasthenia gravis and concurrent Hashimoto's disease

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 813-817

  Kanzato, Naomi ^a   Nakasone, Izumi ^a   Sunagawa, Osahiko ^a   Komine, Yukihiro ^a   Fukiyama, Koshiro ^a  

^a Naha Prefectural Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti cardiac muscle antibody; Giant cell myocarditis; Hashimoto's disease; Memory CD4 cell; Myasthenia gravis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; EDROPHONIUM; MUSCLE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; IMMUNOADSORPTION; MEMORY CELL; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOCARDITIS; NERVE STIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SINUS ARREST; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA;

AGED; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOCARDITIS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0035525801     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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