Doppler tissue imaging to assess systolic function in Chagas' disease;Doppler tissular na avaliação da função sistólica na doença de Chagas

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-40

  Lins Barros, Márcio Vinícius ^a   Pinho Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz ^a   Santana Machado, Fernando ^a   Da Costa Rocha, Manoel Otávio ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Doppler tissue imaging; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037283143     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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