Usefulness of antimyosin antibody imaging for the detection of active rheumatic myocarditis

Authors :: Ban-An Khaw
Kolli Srinath Reddy
Manvir Bhatia
H W Strauss
Tsunehiro Yasuda
James F. Southern
Kewal K. Talwar
Jagat Narula
Prem Chopra
Atul Malhotra
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Rajendra Tandon
Source :: The American journal of cardiology. 84(8)
Publication Year :: 1999
Abstract: Myocarditis constitutes an important component of rheumatic carditis. Antimyosin scintigraphy, which allows noninvasive assessment of myocyte damage, can be used for documentation of cardiac involvement in patients with rheumatic fever where clinical diagnosis is not unequivocal.

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