Cardiac complications after smallpox vaccination

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-619

  Mora, Luis F ^a   Khan, Akbar H ^b   Sperling, Laurence S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Army; Cardiac complications; Myopericarditis; Smallpox; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SMALLPOX VACCINE; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ARMY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; GOVERNMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INJECTION SITE RASH; INJECTION SITE ULCER; MALAISE; MALE; MYALGIA; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; PUSTULE; RASH; REVIEW; SMALLPOX; SOLDIER; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE INVERSION; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES; VACCINE FAILURE;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDITIS; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

EID: 68049115733     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31819fe55b     Document Type: Review

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