Pulmonary infarction as the initial manifestation of Takayasu's arteritis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 725-728

  Nakamura, Tomomi ^a   Hayashi, Shinichiro ^a   Fukuoka, Mami ^a   Sueoka, Naoko ^a   Nagasawa, Kohei ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pulmonary artery involvement; Pulmonary infarction; Takayasu's arteritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PREDNISOLONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG INFARCTION; MALAISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745869684     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1686     Document Type: Article

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