Right ventricular dilatation after left ventricular acute myocardial infarction is predictive of extremely high peri-infarctual apoptosis at postmortem examination in humans

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 672-676

  Bussani, R ^b   Abbate, A ^c   Biondi Zoccai, G G L ^c   Dobrina, A ^b   Leone, A M ^c   Camilot, D ^b   Di Marino, M P ^d   Baldi, F ^d   Silvestri, F ^b   Biasucci, L M ^c   Baldi, A ^a,d  

^a Pathologic Anatomy   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICUSPID VALVE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPSY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0042261947     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.56.9.672     Document Type: Article

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