Successful treatment of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in an adult chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-84

  Sleeper, Meg M ^a   Doane, Cynthia J ^b   Langner, Paul H ^b   Curtis, Stephen ^b   Avila, Kelly ^b   Lee, D Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Alamogordo Primate Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED;

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAN TROGLODYTES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24644520699     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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