Asymptomatic, nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in myotonic dystrophy type 1 detected with a loop recorder

European Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-111

  Finsterer, Josef ^b,d   Stöllberger, Claudia ^a   Avanzini, Marion ^a   Prager, Elfriede ^c   Weidinger, Franz ^a  

^a Second Medical Department   (Austria)

^b KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^c Krankenhaus Oberpullendorf   (Austria)

^d NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PROTEIN KINASE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 48249107096     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000138964     Document Type: Article

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