High plasma immunoreactive endothelin levels in patients with Chagas' cardiomyopathy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1217-1220

  Salomone, Oscar A ^a   Caeiro, Tomás F ^a   Madoery, Roberto J ^a   Amuchástegui, Marcos ^a   Omelinauk, Mirta ^a   Juri, Daniel ^a   Kaski, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a HOSPITAL PRIVADO   (Argentina)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0035873387     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)01502-8     Document Type: Article

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