Fatal eosinophilic heart disease in a child with neurofibromatosis-1 complicated by acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 120-122

  Horigome, Hitoshi ^a   Sumazaki, Ryo ^a   Iwasaki, Nobuaki ^a   Imoto, Natsuki ^a   Kinugasa, Hideyo ^a   Saito, Makoto ^a   Matsui, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Endomyocardial fibrosis; Eosinophilia; Eosinophilic heart disease; Neurofibromatosis 1

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTILEUKEMIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; MANNITOL;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; COUGHING; EOSINOPHILIA; FATALITY; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1;

EID: 20344403103     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-004-0786-4     Document Type: Article

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