Severe heart valve calcification in a young patient with Werner Syndrome

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-54

  Grubitzsch, Herko ^a   Beholz, Sven ^a,b   Wollert, Hans Georg ^a   Eckel, Lothar ^a  

^a Klinikum Karlsburg   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TISSUE DEGENERATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WERNER SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0034594448     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-8807(99)00036-8     Document Type: Article

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