High dose immune globulin therapy ameliorates peripartum cardiomyopathy with elevated serum antibody titer to influenza virus: Case report of two patients

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Muroya, Takahiro ^a   Ikeda, Satoshi ^b   Yamasa, Toshihiko ^a   Koga, Seiji ^b   Kawahara, Eisuke ^a   Togami, Katsutoshi ^a   Mizuta, Yohei ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^b  

^a Sasebo Shiritsu Sogo Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Influenza virus; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Peripartum cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MATERNAL DISEASE; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 76049115959     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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