"All roads lead to Rome" ventricular tachycardia due to right ventricle involvement in autoimmune and non-autoimmune disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 126-127

  Mavrogeni, Sophie ^a   Sfikakis, Petros P ^b   Karabela, Georgia ^c   Stavropoulos, Efthymios ^c   Kolovou, Genovefa ^a   Kitas, George D ^d,e  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ATHENS NAVAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Cardiovascular magnetic resonance; Fibrosis; Oedema; RV cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; ADOLESCENT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; COMPLICATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897435135     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.02.019     Document Type: Article

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