A woman with incidental findings of ventricular aneurysms and a desmosomal cardiomyopathy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1455-1457

  Ly, Suntharo ^a   Marcus, Frank I ^a   Xu, Tianhong ^b   Towbin, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy dysplasia; Plakoglobin; Ventricular aneurysm

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PLAKOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOMAL CARDIOMYOPATHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEART VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HERNIOPLASTY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCOPE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DESMOPLAKINS; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS;

EID: 53049093288     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.05.025     Document Type: Article

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