Echocardiography in Chagas heart disease

Circulation

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1124-1131

  Acquatella, Harry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Chagas disease; Echocardiography; Echocardiography, Doppler; Heart failure; Survival

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLE; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MYOCARDITIS; SYSTOLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIASTOLE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33947594403     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.627323     Document Type: Review

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