Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disturbances in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 751-756

  Kaźmierczak, Jarosław ^a,b   Peregud Pogorzelska, Małgorzata ^a,b   Biernawska, Jowita ^a,b   Przepiera Bȩdzak, Hanna ^a,b   Gora̧cy, Jarosław ^a,b   Brzosko, Iwona ^a,b   Plonska, Edyta ^b   Brzosko, Marek ^a,b  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PR INTERVAL; T WAVE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL PREMATURE COMPLEXES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 37849047270     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707299208     Document Type: Article

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