Morphologic characteristics of aortic valve sclerosis by transesophageal echocardiography: Importance for the prediction of coronary artery disease

Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 154-158

  Tolstrup, Kirsten ^a   Crawford, Michael H ^b   Roldan, Carlos A ^c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve sclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SCLEROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036979098     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066314     Document Type: Article

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