Prevalence and characteristics of left ventricular noncompaction in a community hospital cohort of patients with systolic dysfunction

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-12

  Sandhu, Roopinder ^a   Finkelhor, Robert S ^a   Gunawardena, Diyana R ^a   Bahler, Robert C ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPATHY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; OHIO; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 38049017663     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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