Natural History of Adults with Congenitally Malformed Aortic Valves (Unicuspid or Bicuspid)

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 287-308

  Roberts, William Clifford ^a,b   Vowels, Travis James ^b   Ko, Jong Mi ^b  

^a Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITALLY MALFORMED AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NONRHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; UNICUSPID AORTIC VALVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL HISTORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869507101     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3182764b84     Document Type: Article

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