Rheumatoid nodule and complete heart block: Diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography;Nodule rhumatoëde responsable d'un bloc auriculoventriculaire complet: Diagnostic par l'échocardiographie transœophagienne

Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 101-104

  Hamda, K Ben ^a   Betbout, F ^a   Maatouk, F ^a   Gamra, H ^a   Addad, F ^a   Touzi, M ^a   Bergaoui, N ^a   Farhat, M Ben ^a  

^a FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

chocardiographie; Echocardiography; Nodule rhumato de; Pacemaker; Polyarthrite rhumato de; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid nodule

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; RHEUMATOID NODULE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID NODULE;

EID: 1642327521     PISSN: 00033928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3928(02)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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