Age-related morphological changes in cardiac valves

Geriatrics and Aging

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 49-54

  Butany, Jagdish ^a   Ahluwalia, Manmeet S ^a   Nair, Vidhya ^a   Feindel, Christopher ^b  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age related changes; Calcified aortic valve; Heart valves; Mitral annular calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SALT;

AGED; AGING; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CALCIFICATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORBIDITY; MORPHOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUDDEN DEATH; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR FIBROSIS;

EID: 0242351860     PISSN: 14888408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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