Hypoxaemia associated with an enlarged aortic root: A new syndrome?

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1030-1035

  Eicher, Jean Christophe ^a,b   Bonniaud, P ^b   Baudouin, N ^b   Petit, A ^b   Bertaux, G ^b   Donal, E ^c   Piechaud J F ^d   David, M ^b   Louis, P ^b   Wolf, J E ^b  

^a HÔPITAL DU BOCAGE   (France)

^b DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Institut Jacques Cartier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENLARGED AORTA ROOT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SYNDROME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANOXEMIA; AORTIC DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 23044435724     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.027839     Document Type: Article

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