Lack of Relationship Between Serum Cardiac Troponin I Level and Giant Cell Myocarditis Diagnosis and Outcomes

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 583-585

  Gilotra, Nisha A ^a   Minkove, Nicole ^a   Bennett, Mosi K ^b   Tedford, Ryan J ^a   Steenbergen, Charles ^a   Judge, Daniel P ^a   Halushka, Marc K ^a   Russell, Stuart D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC TROPONIN 1; TROPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GIANT CELL; GIANT CELL MYOCARDITIS; HEART BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERVENTRICULAR SEPTUM; LETTER; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOPSY; BLOOD; CARDIAC MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; TROPONIN I;

EID: 84956630596     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.12.022     Document Type: Letter

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