Myocardial and aortic stiffening in the early course of primary aldosteronism

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 431-436

  Tsioufis, Costas ^a,b   Tsiachris, Dimitrios ^a   Dimitriadis, Kyriakos ^a   Stougiannos, Pavlos ^a   Missovoulos, Platonas ^a   Kakkavas, Apostolis ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Kallikazaros, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Diastolic function; Essential hypertension; Primary aldosteronism; Pulse wave velocity; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PULSE WAVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 53049096685     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20270     Document Type: Article

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