Pericardial disease: What the general cardiologist needs to know

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 993-1000

  Ivens, Emma L ^a   Munt, Bradley I ^a   Moss, Robert R ^a  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COLCHICINE; IBUPROFEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SCLEROSING AGENT; TROPONIN;

CARDIOLOGIST; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MIXED CONSTRICTION AND RESTRICTION; MONOTHERAPY; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CARDIOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS;

EID: 34547199091     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.086587     Document Type: Review

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