Aortic stenosis and angiodysplasia in the elderly: Common things occur commonly?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 526-528

  Luckraz, Heyman ^a   Hashim, Sharul ^a   Ashraf, Saeed ^a  

^a MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiodysplasia; Aortic stenosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SMALL INTESTINE; SYMPTOM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642457205     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-9293(03)00128-2     Document Type: Article

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