Exercise-induced arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: Fact or fallacy?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 938-940

  Sharma, Sanjay ^a   Zaidi, Abbas ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ATHLETES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84860113853     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr436     Document Type: Review

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