Prevalence of left and balanced coronary arterial dominance decreases with increasing age of patients at autopsy. A postmortem coronary angiograms study

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-53

  Knaapen, Max ^a   Koch, Anna H ^a   Koch, Charlotte ^a   Koch, Karel T ^a   Li, Xiaofei ^a   Van Rooij, Peter C ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Peters, Ron J ^a   Van Der Wal, Allard C ^a   Damman, Peter ^a   De Winter, Robbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Coronary dominance; Postmortem angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERIAL DOMINANCE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84870878854     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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