Diagnostic endomyocardial biopsy - Still useful after all these years

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Veinot, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; IRON;

BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FABRY DISEASE; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART CANCER; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYOCARDITIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SARCOIDOSIS; BIOPSY; ENDOCARDIUM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

BIOPSY; ENDOCARDIUM; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 63049113759     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(09)70485-4     Document Type: Editorial

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