Successful Surgical Treatment for Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Daimon, Masahiro ^a   Sasaki, Tomoyasu ^a   Woo, Eiki ^a   Ozawa, Hideki ^a   Morimoto, Tomoshige ^a   Katsumata, Takahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART BLOCK; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447568170     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.044     Document Type: Article

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