title: Acute fulminant necrotising lymphocytic myocarditis in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease: a rapid clinical response to immunosuppression.
authors: Cardiology Department, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
authors: S L
authors: SL
authors: Fairley
authors: Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Herron
authors: Cardiology Department, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
authors: C M
authors: CM
authors: Wilson
authors: Cardiology Department, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
authors: M J D
authors: MJ
authors: Roberts
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D016756:Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008947:Mixed Connective Tissue Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids; D016756:Immunoglobulins, Intravenous; D007155:Immunologic Factors; D011239:Prednisolone