Fulminant fatal swine influenza (H1N1): Myocarditis, myocardial infarction, or severe influenza pneumonia?

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 453-458

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Syed, Uzma ^a   Mickail, Nardeen ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CARVEDILOL; CEFTRIAXONE; ENALAPRIL; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; OSELTAMIVIR; PERAMIVIR; TROPONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MASSAGE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PATHOGENESIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TACHYCARDIA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ACETAMIDES; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYCLOPENTANES; FATAL OUTCOME; GUANIDINES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDITIS; OXAZOLIDINONES; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 77956446778     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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