An unusual form of Naxos disease and its improvement by adjuvant low-dose colchicine therapy

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 433-437

  Gultekin, Nazmi ^a   Kucukates, Emine ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colchicine therapy; Electrical storm; Naxos disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; COLCHICINE; FUROSEMIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE; METOPROLOL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CYANOSIS; DIGITAL CLUBBING; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LOW DRUG DOSE; PALMOPLANTAR KERATODERMA; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; COLCHICINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HAIR DISEASES; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; KERATODERMA, PALMOPLANTAR; METOPROLOL; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBULIN MODULATORS;

EID: 84884164861     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: 03737934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.68.4.2988900     Document Type: Article

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