Aortic valve sclerosis is associated with an echocardiographically determined thinner aortic wall

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 158-164

  Rabkin, Simon W ^a,b   Jue, John ^a   Tsang, Michael Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 33645577079     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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