Chagas' cardiomyopathy and thrombosis: The beginning and the end of a dangerous affair;Miocardiopatía chagásica y trombosis: El principio y el final de una relación peligrosa

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 333-334

  Salomone, Óscar Alejandro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL PRIVADO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN; THALLIUM 201;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037951807     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13045646     Document Type: Editorial

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