Can cardiac catheterization accurately assess the severity of aortic stenosis? An in vitro pulsatile flow study

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 896-905

  Sung, Hsing Wen ^a   Yu, Pei Shin ^a   Hsu, Chi How ^a   Hsu, Jer Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Bernoulli theorem; Catheterization; Pressure recovery

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; CATHETERS; DISEASES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PULSATILE FLOW;

AORTIC STENOSIS; BERNOULLI THEOREM; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; PRESSURE RECOVERY;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ACCURACY; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PULSATILE FLOW;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 0031239236     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02684174     Document Type: Article

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