Treatment of Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis Associated with Polymyositis Using a Left Ventricular Assist Device and Subsequent Corticosteroid and Immunosuppressive Therapy Leading to Remission

A 58-year-old man with a recent history of generalized myalgia and muscle weakness was transferred to our hospital because of acute progressive dyspnea. The patient underwent left ventricular (LV) assist device (LVAD) implantation due to cardiogenic shock with a LV ejection fraction (LVEF) of 6%. Th...

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Publié dans:Intern Med
Auteurs principaux: Ooka, Junichi, Tanaka, Hidekazu, Hatani, Yutaka, Tsuji, Yukio, Takeshige, Ryo, Mori, Shumpei, Matsumoto, Kensuke, Hara, Shigeo, Tanaka, Hiroshi, Okita, Yutaka, Hirata, Ken-ichi
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596276/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781324
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8639-16
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