Cardiac repolarization abnormalities in multiple sclerosis: Spinal cord MRI correlates

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1284-1286

  De Seze, Jérôme ^a   Stojkovic, Tanya ^a   Gauvrit, Jean Yves ^a   Saint Michel, Thierry ^a   Ayachi, Mohamed ^a   Pruvo, Jean Pierre ^a   Vermersch, Patrick ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Dysautonomia; MRI; QT interval; Spinal cord atrophy; Ventricular repolarization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY;

ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033867784     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200008)23:8<1284::AID-MUS21>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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