Sixteen-slice computed tomography, transthoracic real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging assessment of a long-term survivor of rupture of sinus of valsalva aneurysm

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 513-515

  Noji, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Hifumi, Senshu ^a   Nagayoshi, Toshirou ^a   Nagasawa, Shinya ^a,b   Kasuga, Tetsuya ^a   Miwa, Kenji ^a,b   Kobayashi, Tsutomu ^a   Mabuchi, Hiroshi ^b  

^a Hokuriku Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Echocardiography; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multislice computed tomography; Rupture; Valsalva

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA SINUS ANEURYSM; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC RUPTURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIURETICS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUROSEMIDE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUS OF VALSALVA; SPIRONOLACTONE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21244497801     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.513     Document Type: Note

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