Does angiotensin-converting enzyme polymorphism influence the clinical manifestation and progression of heart failure in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy?

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 461-462

  Vančura, Vlastimil ^a   Hubáček, Jaroslav ^a   Málek, Ivan ^a   Gebauerová, Marie ^a   Pit'ha, Jan ^a   Dorazilová, Zora ^a   Langová, Martina ^a   Želízko, Michael ^a   Poledne, Rudolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INDEX; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0344527987     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00889-3     Document Type: Article

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