Serious aortic complications in a patient with Turner syndrome

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 703-705

  Oza, Nishaki Mehta ^a   Siegenthaler, Michael ^b   Horvath, Keith ^b   Rosing, Douglas R ^b   Chen, Marcus Y ^b   Arai, Andrew E ^b   Gould, Harley N ^c   Bakalov, Vladimir ^c   Bondy, Carolyn A ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Congenital heart defect; Hypoplastic aorta; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; LOSARTAN; METOPROLOL; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TURNER SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMANS; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 84876695506     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: 14321076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-012-1808-3     Document Type: Article

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