Varicella myocarditis producing congestive cardiomyopathy
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Varicella myocarditis producing congestive cardiomyopathy.
Introduction Although cardiac involvement in varicella has been described at post-mortem in those dying from unrecognized myocarditis or from other varicella complications (Hackel, 1953; Tatter et al., 1964; Moore et al., 1969; Morales, Adelman and Fine, 1971), clinical evidence of heart involvement in this disease is extremely rare, and is usually only recognized when there are suggestive elec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.57.665.199