Left ventricular endocardial calcification in a patient with myeloproliferative disease

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 943-945

  Khouzam, Rami N ^a,b   Shaikh, Khawar ^a   D'Cruz, Ivan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocardial calcification; Loeffler endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCARDIAL DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LOEFFLER ENDOCARDITIS; MALE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS;

EID: 25844520411     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000177356.40625.66     Document Type: Article

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