Polymyositis with cardiac manifestations and unexpected immunology [1]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1110-1111

  Morrison, I ^a   McEntegart, A ^a   Capell, Hilary ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; CONNECTIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PRAVASTATIN; PREDNISOLONE; RAMIPRIL; STATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOSITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POLYMYOSITIS;

EID: 0036893582     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.61.12.1110     Document Type: Letter

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