Progressive aortic dilation associated with ACTA2 mutations presenting in infancy

Pediatrics

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e262-e266

  Yetman, Anji T ^a   Starr, Lois J ^b   Bleyl, Steven B ^c   Meyers, Lindsay ^c   Delaney, Jeffrey W ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BOSENTAN; ENALAPRIL; ILOPROST; INOTROPIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; SILDENAFIL; ACTA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ACTIN; DNA;

ACTA2 GENE; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; CYANOSIS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MURMUR; HEART SURGERY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTONIC BLADDER; INFANT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTESTINE MALROTATION; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MYDRIASIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEIZURE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VENTILATOR; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ACTINS; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION;

EID: 84934286615     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-3032     Document Type: Article

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