Methysergide-induced valvular heart disease: A report of 2 cases

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 285-286

  Alizzi, Ali M ^a   Al Masri, Ayman H ^a   Murton, Mark M ^a   Dixit, Anand S ^a   Hemli, Jonathan M ^a   Challis, Michael ^a   Yong, Tuck ^a   Nicholson, Michael R ^a  

^a ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; METHYSERGIDE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; RAMIPRIL; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON VOLVULUS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPISODIC VERTIGO; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LONG TERM CARE; MIGRAINE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FIBROSIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY;

FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; METHYSERGIDE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 33750547600     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20061047     Document Type: Article

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