Improvement of cardiac sympathetic nerve function in sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-142

  Smulders, N M ^a   Bast, A ^a   van Kroonenburgh, M J P G ^a   Drent, Marjolein ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysfunction; Cardiac innervation; Carvediol; MIBG; Sarcoidosis; Small fiber neuropathy

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; CARVEDILOL; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INNERVATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPTOM;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; CARBAZOLES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPANOLAMINES; SARCOIDOSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 62549100429     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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