Aortic valve commissural tear mimicking type A aortic dissection

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 658-660

  Kupersmith, Andrew C ^a,b   Belkin, Robert N ^a,b,c   McClung, John A ^a,b   Moggio, Richard A ^a,b  

^a New York Medical College ^*

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Cardiol Consultants of Westchester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE COMMISSURE TEAR; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROLAPSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THORAX PAIN; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AORTA ANEURYSM; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036599451     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.118036     Document Type: Article

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