Myocardial involvement in the hemodynamic abnormalities associated with acute rheumatic fever

Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 177-180

  Nasr, Gamela ^a   Mesbah, Badr ^a   Saad, Alaa ^a  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; cardiac troponin assay; echocardiography; myocardial involvement

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 79952933657     PISSN: 09753583     EISSN: 09762833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0975-3583.74260     Document Type: Article

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