NORMAL DIAMETER OF THE ASCENDING AORTA IN ADULTS: THE IMPACT OF STRICTER CRITERIA ON SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FREE OF DISEASE

NORMAL DIAMETER OF THE ASCENDING AORTA IN ADULTS: THE IMPACT OF STRICTER CRITERIA ON SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FREE OF DISEASE

Background: The American Society of Echocardiography 2015 guidelines for measurement of the aorta utilized studies, including one by Devereaux et al., that suffered from smaller sample sizes and lax criteria for selection of normal subjects, using absence of clinical etiologies of aortic aneurysm wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2017-03, Vol.69 (11), p.2075-2075
Hauptverfasser: Syed, Muhammad Nabeel, Ahmad, Mirza Mujadil, Ahmad, Mirza Nubair, Hussaini, Sharmeen, Muhammad, Mustafa Noor, Pir, Syed Haris A, Khandheria, Bijoy K, Tajik, A. Jamil, Ammar, Khawaja Afzal
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Sprache:eng
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Aneurysms
Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Coronary vessels
Internal Medicine
Studies
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Zusammenfassung:Background: The American Society of Echocardiography 2015 guidelines for measurement of the aorta utilized studies, including one by Devereaux et al., that suffered from smaller sample sizes and lax criteria for selection of normal subjects, using absence of clinical etiologies of aortic aneurysm without consideration of echocardiographic normalcy.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/S0735-1097(17)35464-5