Noncompaction and neuromuscular disease with positive troponin-T in a nonagenerian

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 527-528

  Finsterer, Josef ^a,c   Stöllberger, Claudia ^b  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b Second Medical Department   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Left ventricular hypertrabeculation; Noncompaction; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; BISOPROLOL; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TROPONIN T;

AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PARAPROTEINEMIA; POLYNEUROPATHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; TROPONIN T;

EID: 35348816868     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20095     Document Type: Article

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