Relationship between basal thinning of the interventricular septum and atrioventricular block in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-65

  Uemura, Akihisa ^a   Morimoto, Shin Ichiro ^a   Kato, Yasuchika ^a   Hiramitsu, Shinya ^a   Ohtsuki, Masatsugu ^a   Kato, Shigeru ^a   Sugiura, Atsushi ^a   Miyagishima, Kenji ^a   Iwase, Masatsugu ^a   Hishida, Hitoshi ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular block; Cardiac sarcoidosis; Interventricular septum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 20144386964     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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