Association of carotid artery intima-media thickness with complex aortic atherosclerosis in patients with recent stroke

Angiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-189

  Fasseas, Panayotis ^a   Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^b   Leybishkis, Biana ^a   Cohen, Marc ^a   Sokil, Alexis B ^a   Wolf, Nelson ^a   Dorn, Rose Lee ^a   Roberts, Andrew ^a   VanDecker, William ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0036195423     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970205300209     Document Type: Article

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