Diagnosis and management of patients with aortic dissection

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 266-270

  Ince, Hüseyin ^a   Nienaber, Christoph A ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846668865     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.078550     Document Type: Review

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