Complete heart block due to diphtheritic myocarditis in the present era

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-38

  Varghese, Mithun J ^a   Ramakrishnan, Sivasubramanian ^a   Kothari, Shyam S ^a   Parashar, Akhil ^a   Juneja, Rajnish ^a   Saxena, Anita ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Complete heart block; Diphtheria; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COUGHING; DIPHTHERIA; DIPHTHERIC MYOCARDITIS; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEVER; FOOD REGURGITATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SWELLING; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 84875692218     PISSN: 09742069     EISSN: 09745149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2069.107231     Document Type: Article

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