Evidence map›Paper›PMID 2228910›Full record

ArticleHeart and vessels1990

Immunological features in a case of hypereosinophilic syndrome and myocarditis.

B Maisch, L Drude, K Kochsiek

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Article in Heart and vessels, 1990. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

B MaischDepartment of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
L Drude
K Kochsiek
Philipps University of Marburg · DEUniversitätsklinikum Würzburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clinical and immunological follow-up of a 38-year-old female patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome and classical cardiac involvement, but without demonstrable degranulation of eosinophils and lacking binding of a specific antibody for activated eosinophils, is presented. Instead, the patient demonstrated all the immunological features of autoreactive myocarditis: cytolytic, complement-fixing antimyolemmal antibodies and increased concentrations of circulating immune complexes were present over 3 years.

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AdultAutoantibodiesAutoimmune DiseasesBiopsyBlotting, WesternEchocardiographyEndocarditisEndocardiumEosinophiliaFemaleFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHumansImmunoenzyme TechniquesMyocardiumAutoantibodies

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PMID2228910
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