Aortic Valve Adaptation to Aortic Root Dilatation Insights into the Mechanism of Functional Aortic Regurgitation from 3-Dimensional Cardiac Computed Tomography

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 828-835

  Kim, Dae Hee ^a   Handschumacher, Mark D ^b   Levine, Robert A ^b   Joo Sun, Byung ^a   Jang, Jeong Yoon ^a   Yang, Dong Hyun ^a   Kang, Joon Won ^a   Song, Jong Min ^a   Kang, Duk Hyun ^a   Lim, Tae Hwan ^a   Song, Jae Kwan ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Aortic regurgitation; Aortic valve insufficiency; Computed tomography; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; COMPLICATIONS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ETIOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOPATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84964294586     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.001976     Document Type: Article

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