Aortic Dimensions and Stiffness in Normal Adults

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 749-751

  O'Rourke, Michael ^a   Farnsworth, Alan ^a   O'Rourke, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

aorta; aortic stiffness; Marfan syndrome; pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN;

AGE; AGING; AORTA; AORTA INJURY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ASCENDING AORTA; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIASTOLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; MARFAN SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 56049086596     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.08.002     Document Type: Editorial

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