Evidence for lack of myocardial injury in children with acute rheumatic carditis

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 519-523

  Williams, Richard V ^a,b   Minich, L LuAnn ^a   Shaddy, Robert E ^a   Veasy, L George ^a   Tani, Lloyd Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Cardiac troponin I; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TROPONIN I; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHILD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MURMUR; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; CHILD WELFARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MYOCARDITIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TROPONIN I; UTAH; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037607579     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104795110200094X     Document Type: Article

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