Giant cell myocarditis in a young man responsive to T-lymphocyte cytolytic therapy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 818-821

  Pinderski, Laura J ^a,b   Fonarow, Gregg C ^a   Hamilton, Michele ^a   Fishbein, Michael C ^a   Marelli, Daniel ^a   Moriguchi, Jaime ^a   Cohen, Benjamin ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; OKT 3; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; GIANT CELL; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; GIANT CELLS; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MUROMONAB-CD3; MYOCARDITIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036294423     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(01)00396-5     Document Type: Article

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