Age-related and regional changes of aortic stiffness in the Marfan syndrome: Assessment with velocity-encoded MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 526-531

  Westenberg, Jos J M ^a   Scholte, Arthur J H A ^a   Vaskova, Zuzana ^b   Van Der Geest, Rob J ^a   Groenink, Maarten ^c   Labadie, Gerda ^a   Van Den Boogaard, Pieter J ^a   Radonic, Teodora ^c   Hilhorst Hofstee, Yvonne ^a   Mulder, Barbara J M ^c   Kroft, Lucia J M ^a   Reiber, Johan H C ^a   De Roos, Albert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aging; aortic stiffness; elasticity; magnetic resonance imaging; Marfan syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; VELOCITY ENCODED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; AORTA; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051938524     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22646     Document Type: Article

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