Acute pericarditis: Evaluation and treatment of infectious and other causes

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 67-75

  Ross, Alicia M ^a   Grauer, Susan E ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDRALAZINE; INDOMETACIN; ISONIAZID; KETOROLAC; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYTOIN; PROCAINAMIDE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BED REST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL BIOPSY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 1542510542     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2004.03.1464     Document Type: Review

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