Endomyocardial biopsy findings in patients with atrioventricular block in the absence of apparent heart disease

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 170-176

  Teragaki, Masakazu ^a   Toda, Iku ^a   Sakamoto, Kazuo ^b   Shimada, Kenei ^a   Yamagishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Akioka, Kaname ^a   Kawase, Yoshio ^c   Nishimoto, Masaki ^c   Takeuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b University of Occupational and Environmental Health   (Japan)

^c Izumi City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular block; Electrophysiological testing; Endomyocardial biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CELL DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HIS BUNDLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 12944255907     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02482303     Document Type: Article

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