Pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-124

  Hashimoto, Takahiro ^a   Sakata, Yasushi ^a   Fukushima, Kentaro ^a   Maeda, Tetsuo ^a   Arita, Yoh ^a   Shioyama, Wataru ^a   Nakaoka, Yoshikazu ^a   Hori, Yumiko ^a   Morii, Eiichi ^a   Aozasa, Katsuyuki ^a   Kanakura, Yuzuru ^a   Yamauchi Takihara, Keiko ^a   Komuro, Issei ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epstein Barr virus; Inflammation; Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Right heart failure

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CANDESARTAN HEXETIL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DORIPENEM; ETOPOSIDE; FUROSEMIDE; LOPRINONE; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTACYCLIN; RNA; SILDENAFIL; TOBRAMYCIN; URIC ACID; VIRUS DNA; WARFARIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEVER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOME OXYGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIA; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROSTATITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78751487089     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4143     Document Type: Article

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