Left ventricular non-compaction and its cardiac and neurologic implications

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 589-603

  Finsterer, Josef ^a  

^a DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Chromosomal abnormality; Genetic disease; Heart failure; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Non compaction; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBOLISM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART EMBOLISM; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; IMAGING; LEFT VENTRICULAR NON COMPACTION; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL TRABECULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; ISOLATED NONCOMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 78149407579     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-010-9175-5     Document Type: Review

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