PMID: 9432542Jan 1, 1997Paper

Prognostic significance of several factors in patients with infectious allergic myocarditis

Klinicheskaia meditsina
M K Karamov

Abstract

The courses and outcomes of infectious-allergic myocarditis (IAM) were analysed in 96 IAM patients to elucidate prognostically essential factors. These appeared to be: combination of left ventricular dilation with disturbed repolarization and ventricular rhythm, left atrial dilation, QRS index, a number of echocardiographic indices. There are some minor factors which in certain combination can provide additional prognostic information as regards IAM course and outcome.

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