Thoracic aortic atherosclerosis in patients with aortic regurgitation

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-109

  Shimoni, Sara ^a   Zilberman, Liaz ^a   Edri, Orly ^a   Bar, Iris ^a   Goland, Sorel ^a   Gendelman, Gera ^a   Swissa, Moshe ^a   Livshitz, Shay ^a   Paz, Ofir ^a   Ayzenberg, Oded ^a   George, Jacob ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aortic regurgitation; Atherosclerosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 80052270543     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.05.026     Document Type: Article

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