Clinicopathological correlates can predict acute myocarditis in patients with recent-onset heart failure: Preliminary data

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 188-193

  Campana, Carlo ^a   Monti, Lorenzo ^a   Arbustini, Eloisa ^a   Constantin, Cristina ^a   Scelsi, Laura ^a   Serio, Alessandra ^a   Ghio, Stefano ^a   Klersy, Catherine ^a   Tavazzi, Luigi ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endomyocardial biopsy; Heart failure; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PREDICTION; TACHYCARDIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0036256414     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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