Congenital aortic regurgitation due to aortic valvar fenestration with associated aortic dissection [1]

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 369-

  Vaideeswar, P ^b   Deshpande, J R ^a  

^a BYL NAIR CHARITABLE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART PALPITATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FATALITY; PATHOLOGY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 1542434358     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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