Acute eosinophilic myocarditis: Diagnosis and treatment

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-36

  Rezaizadeh, Houman ^a   Sanchez Ross, Monica ^b   Kaluski, Edo ^b   Klapholz, Marc ^b   Haider, Bunyad ^b   Gerula, Christine ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Hypereosinophilic syndrome; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; MEPREDNISONE; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE EOSINOPHILIC MYOCARDITIS; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; MALAISE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SUBSTERNAL PAIN;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRALGIA; BIOPSY; CHEST PAIN; CREATINE KINASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYOCARDITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPONIN I;

EID: 77749283266     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482940903578998     Document Type: Article

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