Magnetic Resonance Assessment and Therapy Monitoring of Cardiac Involvement in Churg-Strauss Syndrome
| Autor: | Ali Yilmaz, José Fernando Val-Bernal, Dominik M. Alscher, Heiko Mahrholdt, Hannibal Baccouche, Karin Klingel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Sinus tachycardia Churg-strauss syndrome Magnetic resonance imaging Chest pain medicine.disease Pericardial effusion Surgery Physiology (medical) Eosinophilic Medicine medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Sinusitis Nuclear medicine Asthma |
| Zdroj: | Circulation. 117:1745-1749 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4539 0009-7322 |
| Popis: | A 39-year–old man, with a temperature of 38.5°C and sinus tachycardia, was admitted for work-up of chest pain. He had a history of asthma, recurrent pneumonia, sinusitis, and nasal polyposis. Clinical examinations, ECG (Figure 1) and chest x-ray (Figure 2) on admission were suspicious for perimyocarditis. Routine blood analysis revealed an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (88 mm/h; normal |
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