Aetiologic diagnosis of pericardial disease: Worthy efforts may not be applied in the appropriate direction

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1898-1899

  Soler Soler, Jordi ^a   Sagristà Sauleda, Jaume ^a   Permanyer Miralda, Gaietà ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EFFUSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEROLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

HUMANS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS;

EID: 33748045118     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl156     Document Type: Editorial

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