Pericarditis

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9410, 2004, Pages 717-727

  Troughton, Richard W ^a   Asher, Craig R ^b   Klein, Allan L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; MINOCYCLINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ANALYTIC METHOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDLINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SAMPLING; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 1542271490     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15648-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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