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Cardiology
T. Meinertz
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Computertomographic Findings in Congestive Cardiomyopathy
The contribution of non-invasive radiologic diagnostic procedures has thus far been rather insignificant in the diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. The mainstay has been the conventional chest X-ray. Estimation of di...
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Prevalence of Arrhythmias During 24-Hour Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Patients with Dilative Cardiomyopathy
Clinical symptoms of dilative (congestive) cardiomyopathy (DCM) were generally attributed to left ventricular pump failure or thromboembolic complications. Only sporadic reports appeared documenting arrhythmia...
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Repetitive Response to Ventricular Extrastimuli in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy
In dilated cardiomyopathy ventricular arrhythmias are frequently observed and may lead to sudden death from ventricular fibrillation [2, 3, 5]. Increased ventricular vulnerability therefore seems to exist in s...
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Biochemical Findings in Serum of Patients with Congestive Cardiomyopathy: Is Serum Selenium Concentration a Possible Marker?
The conventional methods of clinical chemistry, such as determination of enzyme activities in serum, are not suited for diagnosis or differential diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. Only in a few cases have we observ...
