Significance of selective carotid angiography during complete cardiac catheterization in patients candidates to combined aortic valve and carotid surgery

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-309

  Rigatelli, G ^a,b   Gemelli, M ^a   Zamboni, A ^a   Docali, G ^a   Rossi, P ^a   Grazio, M ^a   Rossi, D ^a   Franco, G ^a  

^a Mater Salutis Hospital   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiography; Aortic valve stenosis; Carotid artery disease; Carotid stenosis; Heart catheterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE SURGERY; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0042531725     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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