Dynamic morphologic changes in the normal aortic annulus during systole and diastole

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 617-621

  Kazui, Toshinobu ^a   Izumoto, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshioka, Kunihiro ^a   Kawazoe, Kohei ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SINUS OF VALSALVA; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751427980     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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