Reliability of new and old Doppler echocardiographic indexes of the severity of aortic stenosis in patients with a low cardiac output

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 248-255

  Antonini Canterin, Francesco ^a   Huang, Guoqian ^a   Cervesato, Eugenio ^a   Faggiano, Pompilio ^a   Pavan, Daniela ^a   Piazza, Rita ^a   Burelli, Claudio ^a   Cassin, Matteo ^a   Macor, Franco ^a   Zardo, Fabio ^a   Nicolosi, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a S Maria degli Angeli   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Echocardiography; Left ventricular insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARAMETER; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROC CURVE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS;

EID: 0036019181     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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