Intra- and Interatrial Asynchrony in Patients With Heart Failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-83

  Van Beeumen, Katarina ^a   Duytschaever, Mattias ^a   Tavernier, Rene ^a   Van de Veire, Nico ^a   De Sutter, Johan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

A WAVE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33845707972     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.07.066     Document Type: Article

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