Second left ventricular aneurysm newly developed in a patient with untreated cardiac sarcoidosis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2477-2478

  Sato, Takahiro ^a   Kanzaki, Hideaki ^a   Ishida, Yoshio ^b   Amaki, Makoto ^a   Ohara, Takahiro ^a   Hasegawa, Takuya ^a   Hashimura, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^a   Yamada, Naoaki ^b   Ikeda, Yoshihiko ^b   Ueda Ishibashi, Hatsue ^b   Kitakaze, Masafumi ^a  

^a Department of Cardiovascular Medicine   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART SARCOIDOSIS; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS; T WAVE;

BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDNISOLONE; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78349267949     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0139     Document Type: Article

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