Takayasu's Arteritis Mimicking Acute Aortic Dissection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1876-1878

  Theodore, Sanjay ^a   Vaidyanathan, Karthik ^a   Jagannath, Byalal Raghavendrarao ^a   Nainar, MadhuSankar ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Jaishankar ^a   Cherian, Kotturathu Mammen ^a  

^a Dr KM Cherian Heart Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34247207012     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.11.040     Document Type: Article

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