Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia and mediastinal adenopathy due to granulomatous infiltration in patients with preserved ventricular function

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-55

  Thachil, Ajit ^a   Christopher, Johann ^a   Sastry, B K S ^a   Reddy, Kavitha Nallapa ^b   Tourani, Vijaya K ^a   Hassan, Ashfaq ^a   Raju, Bhupathiraju Soma ^a   Narasimhan, Calambur ^a  

^a CARE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Apollo Gleneagles PET CT Centre   (India)

Author keywords

cardiac sarcoidosis; granulomatous myocarditis; myocardial tuberculosis; ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMATOSIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFILTRATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPHADENOPATHY; MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPH NODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SARCOIDOSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79959492732     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.02.044     Document Type: Article

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