Growth rate of aortic diameter in patients with type B aortic dissection during the chronic phase

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Sueyoshi, Eijun ^a,b   Sakamoto, Ichiro ^a   Hayashi, Kuniaki ^a   Yamaguchi, Tetsuji ^b   Imada, Tatuya ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Omura Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Aorta; Follow up studies; Risk factors; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; BACK PAIN; CHEST PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4644265416     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000138386.48852.b6     Document Type: Article

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