Evaluation of the aortic root by MRI: Insights from patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia

Circulation

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 509-518

  Summers, Ronald M ^a,c   Andrasko Bourgeois, Jonathan ^a   Feuerstein, Irwin M ^a   Hill, Suvimol C ^a   Jones, Elizabeth C ^a   Busse, Mary K ^a   Wise, Betty ^a   Bove, Karen E ^a   Rishforth, Beth A ^b   Tucker, Eben ^b   Spray, Thomas L ^d   Hoeg, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Diagnostic Radiology Department   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Cholesterol; Magnetic resonance imaging; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XANTHOMA;

EID: 0032508353     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.98.6.509     Document Type: Article

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