Look more closely at the valve: Imaging calcific aortic valve disease

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-11

  Aikawa, Elena ^a   Otto, Catherine M ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HYDROXYAPATITE; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18;

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855393451     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.073452     Document Type: Review

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