Assessment of aortic stiffness by transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1105-1112

  Go, Orson D ^a   Safar, Michel E ^b   Smulyan, Harold ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Aorta; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULSE PRESSURE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AORTA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84908247149     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12528     Document Type: Article

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