Assessment of atrial conduction in patients with scleroderma by tissue doppler echocardiography and P wave dispersion

Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 317-321

  Can, Ilknur ^a,c   Onat, Ahmet Mesut ^b   Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Akdogan, Ali ^a   Ureten, Kemal ^a   Kiraz, Sedat ^a   Ertenli, Ihsan ^a   Ozer, Necla ^a   Tokgozoglu, Lale ^a   Oto, Ali ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

P wave duration; Scleroderma; Tissue Doppler echocardiography

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 36249032044     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099102     Document Type: Article

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