Echocardiographic and clinical predictors of mortality in chronic Chagas' disease

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 271-277

  Rodriguez Salas, Luis A ^a   Klein, Eduardo ^b   Acquatella, Harry ^a,c   Catalioti, Franco ^a   Davalos, Vicente ^a   Gomez Mancebo, Jose Ramon ^a   Gonzalez, Hector ^a   Bosch, Fernando ^a   Puigbo, Juan Jose ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Cox model analysis; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Heart failure; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031977429     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00607.x     Document Type: Article

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