Atherosclerotic disease of the abdominal aorta and its branches: Prognostic implications in patients with heart failure

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-239

  Bourantas, Christos V ^a   Loh, Huan P ^a   Sherwi, Nasser ^a   Tweddel, Ann C ^a   De Silva, Ramesh ^a   Lukaschuk, Elena I ^a   Nicholson, Antony ^b   Rigby, Alan S ^a   Thackray, Simon D ^a   Ettles, Duncan F ^c   Nikitin, Nikolay P ^a   Clark, Andrew L ^a   Cleland, John G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic atherosclerotic disease; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Chronic heart failure; Renal artery stenosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; RENIN INHIBITOR; SPIRONOLACTONE; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WALL STRESS;

AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84862511184     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: 15737322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-011-9284-9     Document Type: Article

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