Constrictive pericarditis as an emerging manifestation of hyper-IgG4 disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sugimoto, Toshiro ^a   Morita, Yoshikata ^a   Isshiki, Keiji ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Uzu, Takashi ^a   Kashiwagi, Atsunori ^a   Horie, Minoru ^a   Asai, Tohru ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constrictive pericarditis; Fever of unknown origin; Hyper IgG4 disease; Pleural fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG EDEMA; MALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMA CELL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55549126487     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.06.111     Document Type: Article

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