Cardiac sarcoidosis: A cause of infiltrative cardiomyopathy

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 483-488

  Fasano, Ross ^a   Rimmerman, Curtis M ^a   Jaber, Wael A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; AZATHIOPRINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; METHOTREXATE; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; PREDNISONE; SOTALOL; STEROID; THALLIUM; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; HEART DISEASE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SARCOIDOSIS; TELEMETRY; TERATOGENICITY; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 3042596203     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.71.6.483     Document Type: Article

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