A Critical Review of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Practice Guidelines on Bicuspid Aortic Valve With Dilated Ascending Aorta

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-110

  Guntheroth, Warren G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA STENOSIS; ASCENDING AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INHERITANCE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASODILATATION;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 51749083049     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.02.106     Document Type: Review

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