Hepatitis C Virus and Cardiomyopathy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 78-79

  Matsumori, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

apical hypertrophy; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; myocarditis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDITIS; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VIROLOGY;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MYOCARDITIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0035260196     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.78     Document Type: Article

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