Impaired elastic properties of ascending aorta in patients with giant cell arteritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 253-256

  Margos, P N ^a   Moyssakis, I E ^b   Tzioufas, A G ^a   Zintzaras, E ^c   Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; TEMPORAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 13244259607     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2004.021998     Document Type: Article

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