Sudden cardiac death associated with Churg-Strauss syndrome

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2355-2359

  Setoguchi, Masahiko ^a   Okishige, Kaoru ^a   Sugiyama, Koji ^a   Shimura, Tsukasa ^a   Maeda, Minetaka ^a   Aoyagi, Hideshi ^a   Kurabayashi, Manabu ^a   Azegami, Koji ^a   Hagiyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY MINATO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Churg Strauss syndrome; Coronary vasospasm; Eosinophilic myocarditis; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MORPHINE; NICORANDIL; PILSICAINIDE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEG; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB PAIN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 73349123789     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0926     Document Type: Article

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