Cardiac surgery in a patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis and heart valvulopathy, both due to pergolide medication for Parkinson's disease

Retroperitoneal fibrosis is best described as a chronic inflammatory process which may be idiopathic, but can rarely be brought about by medications, such as pergolide, used for treating Parkinson's disease. Pergolide can produce a fibrotic process in heart valves, resulting in valve insufficie...

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Autores principales: Apostolakis, Efstratios E, Baikoussis, Nikolaos G, Tselikos, Dimitrios, Koniari, Ioanna, Prokakis, Christos, Fokaeas, Eleftherios, Karanikolas, Menelaos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19912629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-65

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19912629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-65

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