Compliance of the valsalva graft's pseudosinuses at midterm follow-up with cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-96

  Monti, Lorenzo ^a,b   Mauri, Giovanni ^a,b   Balzarini, Luca ^a   Tarelli, Giuseppe ^a   Brambilla, Giorgio ^a,b   Vitali, Ettore ^a   Ornaghi, Diego ^a   Citterio, Enrico ^a,b   Settepani, Fabrizio ^a,b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SINUS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMPLIANCE; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650430504     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.09.023     Document Type: Article

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