Unique features of non-compaction of the ventricular myocardium in Arab and African patients

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 241-245

  Ali, Sulafa K M ^a  

^a Sudan Heart Centre   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NON COMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX RATIO; SIBLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDAN; THROMBUS; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARABS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; ODDS RATIO; SAUDI ARABIA; SUDAN; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56549122145     PISSN: 19951892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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