A Novel Doppler Echocardiographic Method of Measuring the Biophysical Properties of the Aorta in Pediatric Patients

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 745-750

  Sandor, George G S ^b   Hishitani, Takashi ^c   Petty, Ross E ^a   Potts, Mary T ^c   DeSouza, Astrid ^c   DeSouza, Eustace ^c   Potts, James E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA; AORTA ROOT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER; PULSE WAVE; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TECHNIQUE; YOUNG MODULUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACIC AORTA;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA, THORACIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 0141905236     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00407-3     Document Type: Article

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