Aortic dimensions and the risk of dissection

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 137-142

  Erbel, Raimund ^a,b   Eggebrecht, Holger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADVENTITIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; AORTA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA WALL; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROMA; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CALCIFICATION; DEATH; DESCENDING AORTA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTIMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; THICKNESS; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR RING;

AGE FACTORS; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 29644445919     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.055111     Document Type: Review

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