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Review
. 2007 Jun;30(6):277-80.
doi: 10.1002/clc.20092.

Cardiac manifestations of parasitic infections part 3: pericardial and miscellaneous cardiopulmonary manifestations

Carlos Franco-Paredes  1 , Nadine Rouphael, José Méndez, Erik Folch, Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales, José Ignacio Santos, J W Hurst
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Cardiac manifestations of parasitic infections part 3: pericardial and miscellaneous cardiopulmonary manifestations

Carlos Franco-Paredes et al. Clin Cardiol. 2007 Jun.

Abstract

This is part three of a three-part series discussing parasites of the heart. In this section, we present an overview on parasitic diseases involving predominantly the pericardium and other miscellaneous cardiopulmonary manifestations such as some pulmonary hypertension syndromes and endomyocardial fibrosis.

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