Case report: Cardiac involvement in trichinellosis: A case of left ventricular thrombosis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-316

  Tint, Diana ^a   Cocuz, Maria E ^a   Ortan, Ovidiu F ^c,d   Niculescu, Mihai D ^b   Radoi, Mariana ^a  

^a TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^b UNC Nutrition Research Institute   (United States)

^c ICCO Clinics   (Romania)

^d Cardiology Center   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE THROMBOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; INFESTATION; INFLAMMATION; INGESTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEFT VENTRICULAR THROMBOSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER AND MUSCLE CYTOLYTIC SYNDROME; MEAT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; SYNDROME; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS; VOMITING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION;

TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 68549110288     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.81.313     Document Type: Article

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