Is lone atrial fibrillation genetically determined? A family case history report;La fibrillation auriculaire isolee est-elle une maladie genetique?

Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1197-1203

  Poret, P ^a   Mabo, P ^a   Deplace, C ^a   Leclercq, C ^a   Gras, D ^a   Le Marec, B ^b   Daubert, C ^a  

^a RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DISOPYRAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; DOMINANT GENE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PEDIGREE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PEDIGREE; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0030228205     PISSN: 00039683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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