Elevated CA-125 level in acute heart failure due to Toxoplasma gondii perimyocarditis

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Rostoff, Pawel ^a   Mroczek Czernecka, Danuta ^a   Piwowarska, Wieslawa ^a   Gackowski, Andrzej ^a   Konduracka, Ewa ^a   Trzos, Marcin ^a   Pasowicz, Mieczyslaw ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b Krakowski Szpital Specjalistyczny Im Jana Pawła II   (Poland)

Author keywords

CA 125; Heart failure; Myocarditis; Pericarditis; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; SPIRAMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MYOCARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANIMALS; CA-125 ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 55549137083     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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