Early detection of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in Chagas' disease

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cianciulli, Tomás F ^a,c   Lax, Jorge A ^d   Saccheri, María C ^a,c   Papantoniou, Alonso ^a   Morita, Luis A ^a   Prado, Nilda G ^a,b   Dorelle, Adriana N ^a   Riarte, Adelina R ^b   Prezioso, Horacio A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE AGUDOS DR COSME ARGERICH   (Argentina)

^b Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion de la Enfermedad de Chagas Dr Mario Fatala Chaben   (Argentina)

^c Government of the City of Buenos Aires ^*  (Argentina)

^d NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33646061990     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-4-18     Document Type: Article

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