Effect of transcatheter aortic valve implantation on the ascending aorta's elasticity

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 895-899

  Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a   Vrachatis, Dimitrios A ^a   Boudoulas, Harisios ^a   Papaioannou, Theodore G ^a   Moldovan, Carmen ^a   Kariori, Maria G ^a   Kalogeras, Konstantinos I ^a   Pietri, Panagiota G ^a   Tentolouris, Constantinos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic elasticity; Aortic stenosis; CoreValve; PAVR; TAVI; Vasa vasorum

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; SPHYGMOMANOMETERS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84869131628     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-012-0473-x     Document Type: Article

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