Corticosteroid treatment retards development of ventricular dysfunction in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-

  Finsterer, Josef ^a   Stöllberger, Claudia ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEFLAZACORT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ANTICOAGULATION; CATARACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; LETTER; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX DEFORMITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 58849096185     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.09.013     Document Type: Letter

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