Aortic Size Assessment by Noncontrast Cardiac Computed Tomography: Normal Limits by Age, Gender, and Body Surface Area

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-209

  Wolak, Arik ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a   Thomson, Louise E J ^a   Friedman, John D ^a   Hachamovitch, Rory ^a   Gutstein, Ariel ^a   Shaw, Leslee J ^a   Polk, Donna ^a   Wong, Nathan D ^b   Saouaf, Rola ^a   Hayes, Sean W ^a   Rozanski, Alan ^a   Slomka, Piotr J ^a   Germano, Guido ^a   Berman, Daniel S ^a  

^a Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL VALUE; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY SURFACE AREA; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41449093351     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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