Heart Failure in 3 Patients with Acromegaly: Echocardiographic Assessment

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 599-603

  Aono, Jiro ^a   Nobuoka, Sachihiko ^a   Nagashima, Junzo ^a   Hatano, Seiji ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Ando, Hiroyasu ^a   Miyake, Fumihiko ^a   Murayama, Masahiro ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acromegalic cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Left ventricular function

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DIURETICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032114225     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.599     Document Type: Article

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