Coronary and aortic calcification: Is the relationship important?

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 328-330

  Litovchik, Ilya ^a,b   Krakover, Ricardo ^a,b   Blatt, Alex ^a,b   Vered, Zvi ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Ischemic stroke

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

AGING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIFEDIPINE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 34247890030     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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