Vascular and valvar calcification: Recent advances

Heart

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-17

  Farzaneh Far, A ^a   Proudfoot, D ^a   Shanahan, C ^a   Weissberg, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 CARBOXYGLUTAMIC ACID; APATITE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CALCIUM; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ELASTIN; FIBRILLIN; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; SIALOPROTEIN;

AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; KIDNEY FAILURE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0034768662     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.85.1.13     Document Type: Review

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