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Size of the Carotid Body in Patients with Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Measured by Computed Tomography Angiography: A Case-Control Study

OBJECTIVES: Carotid bodies (CBs) play an important role in regulating sympathetic nervous system activity. Thus, they are likely to be enlarged in patients with certain cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The aim of this case-control study was to verify this hypothesis using computed tomography...

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Autores principales: Csizmadia, Sándor, Fodor, Gergely H., Palkó, András, Vörös, Erika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8538397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34697571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9499420