Surgical strategies for severe calcifications of the aorta (porcelain aorta) in two patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1159-1161

  Grenon, S Marlene ^a   Lachapelle, Kevin ^a   Marcil, Michel ^a   Omeroglu, Atilla ^b   Genest, Jacques ^a   de Varennes, Benoit ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Homozygous familial hyperchohsterolemia; Porcelain aorta; Surgery

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; ATORVASTATIN; COLESTYRAMINE; EZETIMIBE PLUS SIMVASTATIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; SIMVASTATIN; CHOLESTEROL;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA CALCIFICATION; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PORCELAIN AORTA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STERNOTOMY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE 2; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 38549136555     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0828-282x(07)70889-9     Document Type: Article

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