Increased carotid artery stiffness without atherosclerotic change in patients with aortic dissection

Angiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 478-486

  Makita, Shinji ^a   Ohira, Atsushi ^a   Naganuma, Yujiro ^a   Moriai, Yoshiteru ^a   Niinuma, Hiroyuki ^a   Abiko, Akihiko ^a   Hiramori, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749025246     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319706290625     Document Type: Article

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