Thyroid storm and lymphocytic myocarditis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 593-596

  Chen, Yi Ting ^a   Yang, Gee Gwo ^a   Hsu, Yung Hsiang ^a  

^a Department of Pathology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Myocarditis; Thyroid storm; Thyrotoxicosis

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PROPRANOLOL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOKINESIA; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHOCYTIC MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NECK INJURY; OLIGURIA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; T WAVE INVERSION; THYROID CRISIS; THYROID GLAND; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTITHYROID AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 77950679433     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.2504     Document Type: Article

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