Acute myocarditis associated with coxsackievirus B4 mimicking influenza myocarditis electron microscopy detection of causal virus of myocarditis

Circulation

Volumn 128, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 2811-2812

  Ikeda, Takeshi ^a   Saito, Tsunenori ^a   Takagi, Gen ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^a   Takano, Hitoshi ^a   Hosokawa, Yusuke ^a   Hayashi, Meiso ^a   Asai, Kuniya ^a   Yasutake, Masahiro ^a   Mizuno, Kyoichi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COXSACKIE VIRUS B; COXSACKIE VIRUS B4; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; MYOFILAMENT; NOSE CAVITY; NOTE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOCARDITIS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84890930832     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.000602     Document Type: Note

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