Right heart failure due to ventricular adiposity: 'Adipositas cordis' - An old diagnosis revisited

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 485-489

  House, Andrew A ^a   Walley, Virginia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Heart failure; Obesity; Pathology; Right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; EPICARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE CELL; OBESITY; PERICARDITIS; SEPSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOPSY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OBESITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0030067652     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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