Aortic distensibility associates with increased ascending thoracic aorta diameter and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with coronary artery ectasia

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-194

  Triantafyllidi, Helen ^a   Rizos, Ioannis ^a   Rallidis, Loukianos ^a   Tsikrikas, Spiridon ^a   Triantafyllis, Andreas ^a   Ikonomidis, Ignatios ^a   Panou, Fotis ^a   Rigopoulos, Angelos ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic distensibility; Ascending aorta diameter; Coronary ectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; COMPLIANCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIASTOLE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956151581     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-009-1196-4     Document Type: Article

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