Aortic valve calcification as an incidental finding at CT of the elderly: Severity and location as predictors of aortic stenosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 342-349

  Liu, Franklin ^a   Coursey, Courtney A ^a   Grahame Clarke, Cairistine ^a   Sciacca, Robert R ^a   Rozenshtein, Anna ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a   Austin, John H M ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Calcification; Cardiovascular disease; CT; Heart; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC SCORE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644967579     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1366     Document Type: Article

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