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Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient

Giant cell myocarditis should be considered in all pediatric patients with refractory ventricular arrhythmia. Endomyocardial biopsy should be obtained to confirm the diagnosis of giant cell myocarditis.

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Autores principales: Panchal, Apurva, Okojie, Obehioye, Slagle, Brittany, Tawfik, Ossama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1410
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author Panchal, Apurva
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Tawfik, Ossama
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spelling pubmed-58892572018-04-10 Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient Panchal, Apurva Okojie, Obehioye Slagle, Brittany Tawfik, Ossama Clin Case Rep Case Reports Giant cell myocarditis should be considered in all pediatric patients with refractory ventricular arrhythmia. Endomyocardial biopsy should be obtained to confirm the diagnosis of giant cell myocarditis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5889257/ /pubmed/29636926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1410 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Panchal, Apurva
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Slagle, Brittany
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Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
title Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
title_full Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
title_fullStr Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
title_full_unstemmed Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
title_short Giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
title_sort giant cell myocarditis causing refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1410
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