The diagnosis and management of aortic dissection

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7839, 2012, Pages

  Thrumurthy, Sri G ^a   Karthikesalingam, Alan ^a   Patterson, Benjamin O ^a   Holt, Peter J E ^a   Thompson, Matt M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTOGRAPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AORTIC RUPTURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84859006478     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d8290     Document Type: Review

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