Pigs-in-a-blanket coronary arteries a case of immunoglobulin G4-related coronary periarteritis assessed by computed tomography coronary angiography, intravascular ultrasound, and positron emission tomography

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 685-687

  Urabe, Yoji ^a,b   Fujii, Takashi ^a   Kurushima, Shuji ^a   Tsujiyama, Shuji ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a,b  

^a JA Hiroshima General Hospital at Jigozen   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE; TROPONIN I;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED CORONARY PERIARTERITIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PERIARTERITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; ARTERITIS; AUTOPSY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84867150668     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.975946     Document Type: Article

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