The bicuspid aortic valve

Current Problems in Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 470-522

  Rahimtoola, Shahbudin H ^f   Braverman, Alan C ^a,b,c   Güven, Hasan ^f   Beardslee, Michael A ^a,b   Makan, Majesh ^a   Kates, Andrew M ^a,d   Moon, Marc R ^a,e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c National Marfan Foundation   (United States)

^d Clinical Cardiology Fellowship Program

^e Center for Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta   (United States)

^f Center for Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTOPLASTY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME 15; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SHONE SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TURNER SYNDROME; AORTA VALVE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISTOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23944516039     PISSN: 01462806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2005.06.001     Document Type: Note

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