Effective regurgitant orifice area by the color Doppler flow convergence method for evaluating the severity of chronic aortic regurgitation: An animal study

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 594-602

  Shiota, Takahiro ^a   Jones, Michael ^b,d   Yamada, Izumi ^b   Heinrich, Russell S ^c   Ishii, Masahiro ^a   Sinclair, Brian ^a   Holcomb, Scott ^a   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^c   Sahn, David J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic regurgitation; blood flow; echocardiography; hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FLOWMETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

EID: 0030059191     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.3.594     Document Type: Article

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