Myopericarditis in a Korean Young Male With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Myocardial involvement with clinical symptoms is a rare manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), despite the relatively high prevalence of myocarditis at autopsies of SLE patients. In this review, we report the case of a 19-year-old male SLE patient who initially presented with myoperica...

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Autores principales: Park, Kyu Tae, Hong, Kyung Soon, Han, Sang Jin, Yoon, Duck Hyoung, Choi, Hyunhee, Lee, Min Young, Ryu, Myeong Shin, Lee, Chan Woo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21779288
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2011.41.6.334
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Sumario:Myocardial involvement with clinical symptoms is a rare manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), despite the relatively high prevalence of myocarditis at autopsies of SLE patients. In this review, we report the case of a 19-year-old male SLE patient who initially presented with myopericarditis and was successfully treated with high dose of glucocorticoids.

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