Endothelial microparticles as a diagnostic aid in Churg-Strauss vasculitis-induced cardiomyopathy

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 3 SUPPL. 49, 2008, Pages

  Kümpers, Philipp ^a   Erdbrügger, Uta ^a   Grossheim, Marieke ^a   Meyer, Gerd Peter ^a   Hiss, Marcus ^a   Gwinner, Wilfried ^a   Haller, Hermann ^a   Haubitz, Marion ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ANCA associated vasculitis; Cardiomyopathy; Churg Strauss syndrome; Coronary vasculitis; Endothelial microparticles

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MYOGLOBIN; PREDNISOLONE; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ENDOTHELIAL MICROPARTICLE; EOSINOPHILIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 52049102037     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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