Screening for acute myocarditis--is scintigraphy with (99m)Tc-Anti-Granulocyte BW 250/183 an answer?

Myocarditis is most often caused by Coxackie B virus, influenza viruses, and echoviruses. It is usually self-restricting and ending in full recovery, but in some patients the infection leads to congestive cardiomyopathy. It is difficult to identify patients with myocarditis using clinical criteria,...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nuclear medicine review. Central & Eastern Europe 2004, Vol.7 (2), p.165-169
Hauptverfasser:	Hubalewska, Alicja, Dudek, Dariusz, Dubiel, Jacek, Płaczkiewicz-Jankowska, Ewa, Huszno, Bohdan, Staszczak, Anna, Frasik, Wiesław
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acute Disease Adult Antibodies, Monoclonal Female Humans Male Mass Screening - methods Middle Aged Myocarditis - diagnostic imaging Myocarditis - pathology Radiopharmaceuticals Reproducibility of Results Sensitivity and Specificity Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon - methods
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