Cardiac involvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

APLAR Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-31

  Coşkun, Selçuk ^a   Özoran, Kürşat ^a,b   Mermerci, Bedriye ^a   Aydoǧdu, Sinan ^a   Keleş, Talat ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b GOP   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cardiac involvement; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 27844572561     PISSN: 02190494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8077.2005.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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