Aortic valve sclerosis is associated with systemic endothelial dysfunction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-141

  Poggianti, Elisa ^a   Venneri, Lucia ^a   Chubuchny, Vlad ^a   Jambrik, Zoltan ^a   Baroncini, Liz Andrea ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA FLOW; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCLEROSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037221876     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02622-0     Document Type: Article

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