Mean platelet volume is increased in patients with bicuspid aortic valve

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 351-355

  Bilen, Emine ^a   Tanboga, Ibrahim Halil ^b   Kurt, Mustafa ^b   Kocak, Umran ^a   Ayhan, Hüseyin ^a   Durmaz, Tahir ^a   Bozkurt, Engin ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Erzurum Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

bicuspid aortic valve; platelet function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; BLOOD PLATELETS; ELASTIC MODULUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PLATELET COUNT; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84863455402     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: 19382723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029611427439     Document Type: Article

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