The impact of gender on cardiovascular system calcification in very elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 173-179

  Liyanage, Luckmini ^a,b   Lee, Nam Ju ^b   Cook, Tessa ^b   Herrmann, Howard C ^b   Jagasia, Dinesh ^b   Litt, Harold ^b   Han, Yuchi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Aortic valve; Calcium; Computed tomography; Coronary; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; AORTIC DISEASE; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AORTOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84953835749     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-015-0752-5     Document Type: Article

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