Immunological analysis of pleural fluid in post-cardiac injury syndrome

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 920, 2002, Pages 362-363

  Shrivastava, R ^a   Venkatesh, S ^a   Pavlovich, B B ^b   Bharadwaj, J ^a   Vaz, A ^c  

^a UNITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HEART ANTIBODY; INDOMETACIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA FLUID; POSTCARDIAC INJURY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STEROID THERAPY; THORACOCENTESIS;

COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; SYNDROME;

EID: 0036284636     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.78.920.362     Document Type: Article

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