Natural History of Ascending Aortic Aneurysms in the Setting of an Unreplaced Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1338-1344

  Davies, Ryan R ^b   Kaple, Ryan K ^a   Mandapati, Divakar ^c   Gallo, Amy ^a   Botta Jr , Donald M ^a   Elefteriades, John A ^a   Coady, Michael A ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33947326953     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.10.074     Document Type: Article

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