Clinical profile of patients with advanced age and inflammatoric dilated cardiomyopathy on endomyocardial biopsy

Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 605-612

  Ohlow, Marc Alexander ^a   Chen, Ting Hui ^a   Schmidt, Andreas ^b   Saenger, Joerg ^b   Lauer, Bernward ^a  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced age; Clinical profile; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Endomyocardial biopsy; Inflammation factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 84953752029     PISSN: 16715411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2015.06.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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