Aortic stenosis and hypertension: Is there any relationship?

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Aggeli, Constadina ^a,b   Lampropoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic valve stenosis; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; GEOMETRY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; UNITED STATES;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 59949087877     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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