Thoracic aortic compliance as a determinant of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1085, Issue , 2006, Pages 363-366

  Russo, Luigi ^a,b  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Senescenceorg   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Aneurysm rupture; Aortic compliance; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULSE WAVE; THORACIC AORTA; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; PATHOLOGY;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 34447630074     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1383.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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