Aortopathy in bicuspid aortic valve disease: Is it really congenital?

Radiology

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1015-1016

  Girdauskas, Evaldas ^a   Borger, Michael A ^b   Kuntze, Thomas ^a  

^a Zentralklinik Bad Berka ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ASCENDING AORTA; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MITRAL VALVE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77956122232     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.101046     Document Type: Letter

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