Atherosclerotic changes in common carotid artery, common femoral artery, and ascending aorta/aortic arch in candidates for coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Angiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 622-629

  Tarzamni, Mohammad Kazem ^a   Eshraghi, Nazanin ^a   Fouladi, Rohollah Fadaei ^b   Afrasiabi, Abbas ^b   Halimi, Monireh ^a   Azarvan, Asad ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ST ELIZABETH HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aorta; atherosclerosis; common carotid artery; common femoral artery; coronary artery disease; intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ARCH ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMMON CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMMON FEMORAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84870672201     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: 19401574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319711435341     Document Type: Article

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