The effect of the ingestion of ethanol on obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 938-941

  Paz, Rami ^a   Jortner, Ruth ^a   Tunick, Paul A ^b   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^a   Eilat, Betty ^a   Perez, John L ^b   Kronzon, Itzhak ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029814144     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199609263351305     Document Type: Article

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