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.

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Published in Orphanet J Rare Dis on December 10, 2014

Authors

Sara Sheikhzadeh1, Julie De Backer2, Neda Rahimian Gorgan3, Meike Rybczynski4, Mathias Hillebrand5, Helke Schüler6, Alexander M Bernhardt7, Dietmar Koschyk8, Peter Bannas9, Britta Keyser10, Kai Mortensen11, Robert M Radke12, Thomas S Mir13, Tilo Kölbel14, Peter N Robinson15, Jörg Schmidtke16, Jürgen Berger17, Stefan Blankenberg6, Yskert von Kodolitsch18

Author Affiliations

1: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. s.sheikhzadeh@uke.de.
2: Centre for Medical Genetics, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. julie.debacker@ugent.be.
3: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. palatum28@yahoo.de.
4: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. m.berner@uke.de.
5: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. m.hillebrand@uke.de.
6: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. s.blankenberg@uke.de.
7: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. al.bernhardt@uke.de.
8: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. koschyk@uke.de.
9: Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. p.bannas@uke.de.
10: Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. keyser.britta@mh-hannover.de.
11: Medizinische Klinik II / Kardiologie, Angiologie, am Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany. Kai.Mortensen@uk-sh.de.
12: Department für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany. robert.radke@ukmuenster.de.
13: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. mir@uke.de.
14: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. t.koelbel@uke.de.
15: Institute of Medical Genetics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. peter.robinson@charite.de.
16: Institute of Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. Schmidtke.Joerg@mh-hannover.de.
17: Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. berger@uke.de.
18: Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany. kodolitsch@uke.de.

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