Regional aortic function is correlated with intima-media thickness-insights from three-dimensional echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 789-794

  Drozdz, Jarosølaw ^a,b   Krzemińska Pakuøla, Maria ^a   Lipiec, Piotr ^a   Orczykowski, Michaøl ^a   Chrzanowski, Ølukasz ^a   Plewka, Michaøl ^a   Kasprzak, Jarosølaw D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b Medical University of Lodz Bieganski Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 23444462065     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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