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The main pulmonary artery in adults: a controlled multicenter study with assessment of echocardiographic reference values, and the frequency of dilatation and aneurysm in Marfan syndrome

BACKGROUND: Echocardiographic upper normal limits of both main pulmonary artery (MPA) diameters (MPA-d) and ratio of MPA to aortic root diameter (MPA-r) are not defined in healthy adults. Accordingly, frequency of MPA dilatation based on echocardiography remains to be assessed in adults with Marfan...

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Autores principales: Sheikhzadeh, Sara, De Backer, Julie, Gorgan, Neda Rahimian, Rybczynski, Meike, Hillebrand, Mathias, Schüler, Helke, Bernhardt, Alexander M, Koschyk, Dietmar, Bannas, Peter, Keyser, Britta, Mortensen, Kai, Radke, Robert M, Mir, Thomas S, Kölbel, Tilo, Robinson, Peter N, Schmidtke, Jörg, Berger, Jürgen, Blankenberg, Stefan, von Kodolitsch, Yskert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25491897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-014-0203-8