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New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1721-

  Britton, Kathryn A ^a,b   Stevenson, William G ^a   Levy, Bruce D ^a   Katz, Joel T ^a   Loscalzo, Joseph ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUTICASONE; LISINOPRIL; MONTELUKAST; PREDNISONE; SOTALOL; TROPONIN; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ABERRANT HEART CONDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PREEXCITATION; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; NAUSEA; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; BIOPSY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PREDNISONE; SARCOIDOSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 77951827880     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps0801473     Document Type: Article

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