Systemic sclerosis complicated by arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia that was misinterpreted as pulmonary arterial hypertension

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 152-157

  Arai, Satoko ^a   Kurasawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Maezawa, Reika ^a   Hanaoka, Ryosuke ^a   Fukuda, Takeshi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia; Pulmonary hypertension; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; SCL 70 ANTIBODY; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ANTERIOR BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MURMUR; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; JAPANESE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCLERODERMA; SKIN ATROPHY; STOMACH DISTENSION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ULCER;

ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84861479838     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-011-0484-x     Document Type: Article

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