Diagnostic findings and outcome in children with primary restrictive cardiomyopathy

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 44-47

  Neudorf, Ulrich ^a   Bolte, Angelika ^a   Lang, Dieter ^b   Hentrich, Frank ^a   Schmaltz, Achim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constrictive pericarditis; Dilated atriums; E A ratio; Endomyocardial biopsy; Primary restrictive cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006477192     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1047951100003231     Document Type: Article

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