Aortic stenosis severity is not a risk factor for poststenotic dilatation of the ascending aorta

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 84-88

  Linhartová, Kateřina ^a,b   Beránek, Václav ^a   Šefrna, František ^a   Hanišová, Iveta ^a   Štěrbáková, Gabriela ^a   Pešková, Markéta ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Ascending aorta; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA SINUS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; RISK FACTOR; TRICUSPID VALVE;

AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS;

EID: 33845979891     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.84     Document Type: Article

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