Aortopathy in bicuspid aortic valve disease - genes or hemodynamics? or Scylla and Charybdis?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 803-804

  Sievers, Hans Hinrich ^a   Sievers, Hans Lennard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortopathy; Bicuspid aortic valve; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; EDITORIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 79955589508     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2011.02.007     Document Type: Editorial

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