Small vessel vasculitis with pulmonary aneurysms and silent myocardial infarction

Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1022-1024

  Farzaneh Far, R ^a   Watkins, J ^a   Tahir, H ^a   Wykes, F ^a   Beynon, H ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; SILENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SMALL VESSEL VASCULITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANEURYSM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0141615861     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keg266     Document Type: Letter

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