Dilated aortic root is related to a global aortic dilating diathesis

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 867-871

  Alegret, Josep M ^a   Calvo, Nahum ^a   Ligero, Carme ^a   Palomares, Raquel ^a   Mill, Lidn ^a   Martn Paredero, Vicente ^a   Montero, Manuel ^a   Joven, Jorge ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI SANT JOAN DE REUS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC DILATING DIATHESIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; AGE; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY SURFACE AREA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77957581689     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.04.073     Document Type: Article

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