Sinoatrial block complicating legionnaire's disease

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 937, 2003, Pages 657-659

  Medarov, B ^a   Tongia, S ^a   Rossoff, L ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DOPAMINE; HEPARIN; IMIPENEM; LORATADINE; PRAVASTATIN; RALOXIFENE; ROFECOXIB; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; VANCOMYCIN; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART SINOATRIAL BLOCK; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE CULTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; SINOATRIAL BLOCK;

EID: 0348140979     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.79.937.657     Document Type: Article

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