Usefulness of Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac and Ascending Aorta Calcific Deposits to Predict Coronary Artery Calcium and Presence and Severity of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1045-1050

  Nucifora, Gaetano ^a,b   Schuijf, Joanne D ^a   van Werkhoven, Jacob M ^a   Jukema, J Wouter ^a,c   Marsan, Nina Ajmone ^a   Holman, Eduard R ^a   van der Wall, Ernst E ^a,c   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE SCLEROSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE LEVEL;

AGED; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 63749125423     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.12.031     Document Type: Article

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