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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease lupus
Phenotype C0027059|myocarditis
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PubMedID- 22937445 A patient of lupus presenting with myocarditis and overlapping autoimmune hepatitis.
PubMedID- 22916238 The brain of a 32 year old caucasian woman (who died from acute myocarditis associated with lupus without brain involvement), which is not included in our imaging study, was removed from the cranium within 20 hrs after death.
PubMedID- 23734352 First presentation of lupus with myocarditis and vf is uncommon, however reaching the correct diagnosis is important as due to the reversible nature of the condition and improvement in left ventricular systolic function with medical therapy, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (icd) might not be appropriate.

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