Echocardiographic findings in patients with temporal arteritis: Apropos of one case of temporal arteritis-associated verrucous (Libman-Sachs) endocarditis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 2 SUPPL. 41, 2006, Pages

  Kopterides, Petros ^a   Moyssakis, Ioannis ^a   Margos, Panayiotis ^a   Sipsas, Nikolaos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Temporal arteritis; Valvular disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NONBACTERIAL THROMBOTIC ENDOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; REVIEW; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPIRIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEROIDS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 33745712642     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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