Thoracic aorta atherosclerosis burden index predicts coronary artery disease in patients undergoing transesophageal echocardiography

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 232-236

  Frogoudaki, Alexandra ^a   Barbetseas, John ^b   Aggeli, Constadina ^b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes ^c   Lambrou, Spyros ^d   Pitsavos, Christos ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Thoracic aorta atherosclerosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; THORACIC AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS BURDEN INDEX; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 39649083805     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.03.041     Document Type: Article

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