Usefulness of Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin in Patients with Giant Cell Myocarditis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 447-451

  Suarez Barrientos, Aida ^a   Wong, Joyce ^a   Bell, Alexander ^a   Lyster, Haifa ^a   Karagiannis, Georgios ^a   Banner, Nicholas R ^a,b  

^a HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOBUTAMINE; LEVOSIMENDAN; MILRINONE; NORADRENALIN; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BIVENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL MYOCARDITIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMPLANTATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT; BIOPSY; GIANT CELL; HEART MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; BIOPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937516719     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2015.04.040     Document Type: Article

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