Right Ventricular Alterations in Scuba Divers: Findings on Electrocardiography and Echocardiography

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 673-676

  Mukerji, Basanti ^a   Alpert, Martin A ^a,b   Mukerji, Vaskar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; BRADYCARDIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MALE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 0034220430     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200007000-00006     Document Type: Article

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