Sudden death in myotonic dystrophy [5]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1628-

  Vrtovec, Bojan ^a   Haddad, Francois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECG ABNORMALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; LETTER; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; BLOOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MORTALITY;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PROGNOSIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; LONG QT SYNDROME;

EID: 53749103273     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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