Aortic pathology: Aortic trauma, debris, dissection, and aneurysm

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Khalil, Ahmed ^a   Tarik, Tari ^a   Porembka, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Computed tomography; Critical care; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pathology; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA INTIMA; AORTA SINUS ANEURYSM; ARTERY CATHETER; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GOLD STANDARD; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULCER;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547643156     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000270276.01938.C0     Document Type: Review

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