Transient cardiomyopathy in a patient with congenital contractural arachnodactyly (Beals syndrome)

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 285-288

  Matsumoto, Tae ^a,c   Watanabe, Atsushi ^b   Migita, Makoto ^a,b   Gocho, Yoshihiro ^a   Hayakawa, Jun ^a   Ogawa, Shun Ichi ^a   Shimada, Takashi ^a,b   Fukunaga, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beals syndrome (congenital contractural arachnodactyly; CCA); Cardiomyopathy; Noncompaction

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLIN 1; FIBRILLIN 2;

ANAMNESIS; ARACHNODACTYLY; ARTICLE; BEALS SYNDROME; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CONTRACTURE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; SYNDROME;

EID: 33750503444     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.73.285     Document Type: Article

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