Imaging modalities for the early diagnosis of acute aortic syndrome

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 477-486

  Evangelista, Artur ^a   Carro, Amelia ^a   Moral, Sergio ^a   Teixido Tura, Gisela ^a   Rodríguez Palomares, José F ^a   Cuéllar, Hug ^a   García Dorado, David ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881088368     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2013.92     Document Type: Review

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