Cardiac monitoring and treatment for children and adolescents with neuromuscular disorders

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-235

  English, Kate M ^a   Gibbs, John L ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GROWTH HORMONE; PERINDOPRIL;

ADOLESCENT; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ONSET AGE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, EMERY-DREIFUSS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY;

EID: 33645744358     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162206000491     Document Type: Review

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