Aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease caused by alkaptonuria, a rare genetic metabolic syndrome

Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 302-304

  Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a,b   Triantafillidi, Helen ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alkaptonuria; Aortic stenosis; Homogentisic acid; Ochronosis

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENTISIC ACID;

ADULT; ALKAPTONURIA; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALKAPTONURIA; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; HOMOGENTISIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 0032452226     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006863     Document Type: Article

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