Acute myocarditis from coxsackie infection, mimicking subendocardial ischaemia

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-150

  Chrysohoou, Christina ^a,b   Tsiamis, Eleytherios ^a   Brili, Stella ^a   Barbetseas, John ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Heart failure; Viral myocarditis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; FUROSEMIDE; MAGNESIUM; METOPROLOL; RAMIPRIL;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 65949113389     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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