Heart remodelling and obesity: The complexities and variation of cardiac geometry

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 171-172

  Ashrafian, Hutan ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a   Le Roux, Carel W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GEOMETRY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMEGALY; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 78651261294     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.207092     Document Type: Editorial

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