Vagal dysfunction in Chagas disease [2]

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-226

  Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz P ^a,c   Lombardi, Federico ^b   Sousa, Marcos R ^a   Costa Rocha, Manoel Otávio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Chagas disease; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 23244433746     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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