Aortic atherosclerotic lesions in the thoracic aorta detected by multiplane transesophageal echocardiography as a predictor of coronary artery disease in elderly patients

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 734-739

  Parthenakis, Fragiskos I ^a   Kochiadakis, George E ^a   Skalidis, Emmanuel I ^a   Kanakaraki, Marina K ^a   Mezilis, Nikos E ^a   Kanoupakis, Emmanuel M ^a   Vardas, Panos E ^a   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic atherosclerotic plaque; Coronary artery disease; Elderly; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033802216     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960231010     Document Type: Article

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