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Various factors determining the fatal outcome in myocarditis |
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| Authors: | N R Paleev B V Gordienko M A Gurevich V P Pronina S R Mravian |
| Abstract: | A study of 38 patients with infectious-allergic myocarditis included clinical laboratory investigation, echocardiography, catheterization of the right heart compartments and the pulmonary artery and endomyocardial biopsy. It has identified adverse factors contributing to fatal outcome: increased end-diastolic pressure in the pulmonary artery, low cardiac output, signs of macrofocal fibrosis and small ejection fraction. |
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