Supravalvular and valvular aortic stenosis in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 315-317

  Rafeiyian, Sima ^a   Mojtahedzadeh, Saeed ^a   Hekmat, Manouchehr ^a   Naderi, Nasim ^a   Nobahar, Rezvan ^a   Hashemi, Mohammah Jafar ^a   Kouhi, Ali ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Familial hypercholesterolemia; Supravalvular aortic stenosis

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; COLESTYRAMINE; MEVINOLIN; NICOTINIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; SIBLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; AORTIC STENOSIS, SUPRAVALVULAR; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CHOLESTYRAMINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MALE; NIACIN; PYRROLES;

EID: 34249816161     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102156     Document Type: Article

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