Prevalence of interatrial block in patients with Friedreich's Ataxia

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 386-387

  Panas, Marios ^a   Gialafos, Elias ^a   Spengos, Kostas ^a   Papaioannou, Theodore G ^a   Aggeli, Konstantina ^a   Kladi, Athina ^a   Siasos, Gerasimos ^a   Gialafos, John ^a   Vassilopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Friedreich's Ataxia; Interatrial block; P wave duration

Indexed keywords

FRATAXIN;

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BLOCK; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; INTERATRIAL BLOCK; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 78650024574     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2010.02.056     Document Type: Article

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