Cardiac calcification by transthoracic echocardiography in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 288-295

  Corciu, Anca I ^a,b   Siciliano, Valeria ^b   Poggianti, Elisa ^b   Petersen, Christina ^b   Venneri, Lucia ^b   Picano, Eugenio ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcification; Coronary artery disease; Echocardiography; Framingham risk score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 77956874350     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.01.021     Document Type: Article

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