Cardiac Involvement in Adults With m.3243A>G MELAS Gene Mutation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 264-269

  Vydt, Tom C G ^a   de Coo, René F M ^a   Soliman, Osama I I ^a   ten Cate, Folkert J ^a   van Geuns, Robert Jan M ^a   Vletter, Wim B ^a   Schoonderwoerd, Kees ^a   van den Bosch, Bianca J C ^b   Smeets, Hubert J M ^b   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUSCLE BIOPSY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846118043     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.07.089     Document Type: Article

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