Echocardiographic myocardial imaging reveals segmental cardiomyopathy in churg-strauss syndrome

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 594-597

  Vitarelli, Antonio ^a   Capotosto, Lidia ^a   Rosato, Edoardo ^a   Salsano, Felice ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTETIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; TACHYCARDIA; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; TORSION ABNORMALITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 78449262862     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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