The heart in Wegener's granulomatosis

Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-10

  Korantzopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Papaioannides, Dimitrios ^b   Siogas, Konstantinos ^a  

^a G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Psychiatric Hospital of Attika Dafni   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac involvement; Conduction system; Coronary arteries; Endocarditis; Myocardial infarction; Pericarditis; Valves; Vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERITIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOCARDIAL DISEASE; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART PALPITATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 1842851775     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076995     Document Type: Review

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