Aortic and Mitral Valve Atherosclerosis: Predictive Factors and Associations with Coronary Atherosclerosis Using Gensini Score

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-127

  Anvari, Maryam Sotoudeh ^a   Boroumand, Mohammad Ali ^a   karimi, Abbasali ^a   Alidoosti, Mohammad ^a   Yazdanifard, Parin ^a   Shirzad, Mahmood ^a   Abbasi, Seyed Hesameddin ^a   Soleymani, Abbas ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary atherosclerosis; Gensini score; Valvular atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GENSINI SCORE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE ATHEROSCLEROSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING HABIT;

AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 60349126638     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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