A measured approach to managing the aortic root in patients with bicuspid aortic valve disease

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-100

  El Hamamsy, Ismail ^b   Yacoub, Magdi H ^a  

^a Harefield Heart Science Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA FLOW; AORTA ROOT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTOPLASTY; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DILATATION; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CARDIOVASCULAR INFLAMMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASODILATATION; AORTA VALVE; AORTIC DISEASES; GENETICS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS;

AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 63149179745     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-009-0015-y     Document Type: Review

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