Relation Between Mitral Annular Calcium and Complex Aortic Atheroma in Patients With Cerebral Ischemia Referred for Transesophageal Echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1306-1311

  Karas, Maria G ^a   Francescone, Steven ^a   Segal, Alan Z ^a   Devereux, Richard B ^a   Roman, Mary J ^a   Liu, Jennifer E ^b   Hahn, Rebecca T ^b   Kizer, Jorge R ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA VALVE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34247519199     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.12.053     Document Type: Article

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