Recurrent pericarditis in children: Elevated cardiac autoantibodies

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 168-175

  Dalla Pozza, Robert ^a   Hartl, Dominik ^a   Bechtold, Susanne ^a   Urschel, Simon ^a   Kozlik Feldmann, Rainer ^a   Pankuweit, Sabine ^b   Belohradsky, Bernd ^a   Netz, Heinrich ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimyolemmal antibody; Recurrent pericarditis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INDOMETACIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYOLEMMA ANTIBODY; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOON FACE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARADOXICAL PULSE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847627552     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-007-0471-6     Document Type: Article

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