Susceptibility to acute thoracic aortic dissections in patients dying outside the hospital: An autopsy study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 474-479

  Prakash, Siddharth K ^a   Haden Pinneri, Kathryn ^b   Milewicz, Dianna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BODY SIZE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART INDEX; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SUDDEN DEATH; THORACIC AORTIC DISSECTION; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS;

EID: 80052361779     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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