Elastic properties of the ascending aorta in healthy children and adolescents - Age-related reference values for aortic wall stiffness and distensibility obtained on M-mode echocardiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3007-3014

  Hauser, Michael ^a   Kühn, Andreas ^a   Petzuch, Kurt ^a   Wolf, Petra ^b   Vogt, Manfred ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aorta; Echocardiography; Elasticity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSE PRESSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; AORTA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84888266987     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-13-0652     Document Type: Article

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