Noncompaction in a septic heart, missed on echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Finsterer, Josef ^a   Dumser, Martina ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Endocarditis; Myocarditis; Non compaction; Pitfalls; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; APHASIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GAZE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EDEMA; HEART RUPTURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL EDEMA; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOTOALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; VERY ELDERLY;

CARDIOMYOPATHY; ENDOCARDITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NON-COMPACTION; PITFALLS; SEPSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOLATED NONCOMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 84893659474     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.11.104     Document Type: Article

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