Left ventricular function in young adults with childhood and adulthood onset growth hormone deficiency

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-144

  Longobardi, Salvatore ^a   Cuocolo, Alberto ^a   Merola, Bartolomeo ^a   Di Rella, Francesca ^a   Colao, Annamaria ^a   Nicolai, Emanuele ^a   Cardei, Stefania ^a   Salvatore, Marco ^a   Lombardi, Gaetano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WORK; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031914569     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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