Fatal myocarditis in a child with systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis during treatment with an interleukin 1 receptor antagonist

BACKGROUND: The pathologic diagnosis of isolated myocarditis without pericardial involvement is uncommonly encountered in systemic onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (soJIA). CASE: An eleven year-old boy with soJIA died suddenly while being treated with the interleukin 1 (IL-1) receptor inhibitor,...

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Autores principales: Zeft, Andrew S, Menon, Shaji C, Miller, Dylan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22490470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-10-8

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