An unusual case of recurrent Loffler endomyocarditis of the aortic valve

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 606-609

  Gudmundsson, G Steinar ^a   Ohr, Joseph ^a   Leya, Ferdinand ^a   Jacobs, William R ^a   Godwin, John E ^a   Schwartz, Jeffrey ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CREATINE KINASE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TROPONIN I; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; LOEFFLER ENDOMYOCARDITIS; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RARE DISEASES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0038754818     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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