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CASE REPORT

Successful treatment of chronic lupus myocarditis with prednisolone and mizoribine

Satoru AkazawaDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Kunihiro IchinoseDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Tomoki OriguchiGraduate School of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Shin-ya KawashiriDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Naoki IwamotoDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Keita FujikawaDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Toshiyuki AramakiDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Makoto KamachiDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Kazuhiko ArimaDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Mami TamaiDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Hideki NakamuraDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Hiroaki IdaDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Atsushi KawakamiDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Katsumi EguchiDepartment of Rheumatology, Unit of Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
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Pages 606-610 | Received 17 Mar 2010, Accepted 31 May 2010, Published online: 02 Jan 2014

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