Atrial giant cell myocarditis: A distinctive clinicopathologic entity

Circulation

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-47

  Larsen, Brandon T ^a   Maleszewski, Joseph J ^a   Edwards, William D ^a   Cooper, Leslie T ^a   Sobonya, Richard E ^b   Eric Thompson, V ^c   Duckett, Simon G ^d   Peebles, Charles R ^d   Simpson, Iain A ^d   Tazelaar, Henry D ^e  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Missouri Heart Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

heart enlargement; myocarditis; sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIUM GIANT CELL MYOCARDITIS; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRANULOMA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYOCARDITIS; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GIANT CELLS; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84872094062     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.128900     Document Type: Article

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