Association of left ventricular hypertrophy and aortic dilation in patients with acute thoracic aortic dissection

Angiology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 447-455

  Iarussi, Diana ^a   Caruso, Aurelio ^a   Galderisi, Maurizio ^b   Covino, Franco Enrico ^a   Dialetto, Giovanni ^a   Bossone, Eduardo ^a   De Divitiis, Oreste ^b   Cotrufo, Maurizio ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA ROOT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034938259     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970105200702     Document Type: Article

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