Prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias during and after pregnancy in women with chagas' disease without apparent heart disease

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-9

  Achá, Renato Enrique Sologuren ^a,b   Rezende, Marco Túlio Oliveira ^a   Heredia, Rimmel Amador Guzmán ^a   Da Silva, Aguinaldo Coelho ^a   Rezende, Elmiro Santos ^a   Souza, Cleber Augusto Oliveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Chagas' disease; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 85045796721     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2002001000001     Document Type: Article

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