Previously undiagnosed congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries in a 51-year-old woman with chronic heart failure symptoms

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Szymañski, Filip M ^a   Bakon, Leopold ^a   Grabowski, Marcin ^a   Piatkowski, Radosław ^a   Filipiak, Krzysztof J ^a   Rdzanek, Adam ^a   Pacho, Ryszard ^a   Rudowski, Robert ^a   Opolski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Heart failure; Transposition of the great arteries

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CARVEDILOL; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; RAMIPRIL; SIMVASTATIN; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITALLY CORRECTED TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT ARTERIES; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PALPITATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS;

EID: 33847139799     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.08.111     Document Type: Article

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