Cardiac fibrosis, arrhythmia and sudden death in myotonic dystrophy type 1: Could TGF-ß1 improve the predictive accuracy of patients at risk, opening new therapeutic challenges?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4976-4978

  Turillazzi, Emanuela ^a   Neri, Margherita ^a   Riezzo, Irene ^a   Di Paolo, Marco ^b   Evangelisti, Laura ^b   Fineschi, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLLAPSE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANTED HEART PACEMAKER; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FIBROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY;

EID: 84886395492     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.07.135     Document Type: Article

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