Magnetic resonance imaging in experimental Chagas disease: A brief review of the utility of the method for monitoring right ventricular chamber dilatation

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-90

  De Souza, Andréa P ^a   Tang, Baiyu ^b   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^b   Araújo Jorge, Tania C ^a   Jelicks, E Linda A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PHOSPHORAMIDON; VERAPAMIL;

CHAGAS DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; HEART DILATATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 24044451232     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1409-4     Document Type: Review

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