Takayasu's arteritis mimicking aortic intramural hematoma in a female patient with chest pain

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-283

  Halapas, Antonios ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas P ^a,b   Georgiopoulou, Vasiliki V ^a   Chen, Edward P ^a   Gravanis, Michael B ^a   Martin, Randolph P ^a   Lerakis, Stamatios ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic diseases; Chest pain; Takayasu's arteritis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; AORTIC INTRAMURAL HEMATOMA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; CHEST PAIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 54549087937     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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