Long-term cardiovascular symptoms and signs in mustard gas victims

Toxin Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-33

  Fallahi, Faramarz ^a   Ghazanfari, Tooba ^a   Yaraee, Roya ^a   Hassan, Zuhair Mohammad ^b   Foroutan, Abbas ^c   Soroush, Mohammad Reza ^d   Mahdavi, Mohammad Reza Vaez ^a   Moaiedmohseni, Sakine ^a   Ghasemi, Hassan ^a   Shams, Jalaleddin ^a   Pourfarzam, Shahryar ^a   Nadoushan, Mohammad Reza Jalali ^a   Ghaderi, Sulayman ^e   Naghizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^b  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d JANBAZAN MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER JMERC   (Iran)

^e Chemical Victims' Clinic of Sardasht   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Chemical victim; Iraq Iran war; Mustard gas; Sardasht Iran Cohort Study

Indexed keywords

MUSTARD GAS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VICTIM;

EID: 77149143861     PISSN: 15569543     EISSN: 15569551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15569540802689402     Document Type: Article

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