Treatment with methotrexate and low-dose corticosteroids in sarcoidosis patients with cardiac lesions

Internal Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 2761-

  Nagai, Sonoko ^a   Yokomatsu, Takafumi ^b   Tanizawa, Kiminobu ^c   Ikezoe, Kohei ^c   Handa, Tomohiro ^c   Ito, Yutaka ^c   Ogino, Shunpei ^a   Izumi, Takateru ^a  

^a Kyoto Central Clinic/Clinical Research Center   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI KYOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiothoracic ratio on plain chest radiograph; Corticosteroid; Ejection fraction on echocardiography; Methotrexate; N terminal fragment pro brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP); Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

DRUG RESPONSE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEMALE; MALE;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 84913592782     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.53.3120     Document Type: Letter

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