Multi-modality cardiac imaging for granulomatosis with polyangiitis
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Cardiac involvement in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener granulomatosis).
A 38-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with a 12-hour onset of shortness of breath and position-related chest pain. In the last 3 months, he had had 2 similar but less intense episodes, each of which lasted for approximately 1 week. Both episodes were associated with subfebrility, flulike symptoms (dry cough, nasal obstruction), and increased fatigue and resolved with nonste...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1071-3581,1532-6551
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-019-01820-x