Contrast-enhanced CMR imaging reveals myocardial involvement in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy without cardiac manifestations

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1324-1325

  Mavrogeni, Sophie ^a   Douskou, Marouso ^b   Manoussakis, Menelaos N ^b  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GADOLINIUM; TROPONIN I;

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOPATHY; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SILENT MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

ADULT; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMYOSITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 83455230641     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.05.009     Document Type: Letter

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