Reduced aortic elastic properties in a child with Takayasu arteritis: Case report and literature review

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 685-690

  Baumgartner, Daniela ^a   Sailer Höck, Michaela ^a   Baumgartner, Christian ^b   Trieb, Thomas ^a   Maurer, Heiner ^a   Schirmer, Michael ^c   Zimmerhackl, Lothar Bernd ^a   Stein, Jörg Ingolf ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aortic elasticity; Distensibility; Echocardiography; Takayasu arteritis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; PREDNISOLONE; RANITIDINE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA WALL; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AORTA; AZATHIOPRINE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDNISOLONE; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 26944472785     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-005-1731-y     Document Type: Article

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