Diagnostic uncertainties and future perspectives in noncompaction cardiomyopathy

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-233

  Soliman, Osama I I ^a   Geleijnse, Marcel L ^a   Caliskan, Kadir ^a   Vletter, Wim B ^a   Ten Cate, Folkert J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Function; Heart failure; Left ventricle; Magnetic resonance imaging; Noncompaction

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION;

EID: 84860235807     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2012.673582     Document Type: Review

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