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Dual SPECT Imaging of Löffler’s Endomyocarditis in the Acute Phase
Author(s) -
Tomoyuki Yamaguchi,
Yoshio Yasumura,
Satoshi Nakatani,
Noritoshi Nagaya,
Hatsue IshibashiUeda,
Masayuki Inubushi,
Yoshio Ishida,
Masakazu Yamagishi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.102.16.2019
Subject(s) - medicine , nuclear medicine , dual (grammatical number) , radiology , linguistics , philosophy
A72-year-old man with bronchial asthma and atrial fibrillation was admitted to our clinic because of dyspnea. There had been no cardiac symptoms until 6 days earlier, when he noticed mild dyspnea that had developed rapidly. A chest radiograph showed pulmonary congestion. The ECG demonstrated significant ST-segment depression in leads V2 to V5, which suggested subendocardial ischemia. Blood analysis revealed a marked increase in total white blood cell (21 720/mm3) and eosinophil (9122/mm3) counts. The creatine kinase-MB level of 41 U/L suggested …

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