In-vivo analysis of the instantaneous transvalvular pressure difference-flow relationship in aortic valve stenosis: Implications of unsteady fluid-dynamics for the clinical assessment of disease severity

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 557-566

  Bermejo, Javier ^a   Antoranz, J Carlos ^a   Burwash, Ian G ^a   Rojo Alvarez, Jose L ^a   Moreno, Mar ^a   García Fernández, Miguel A ^a   Otto, Catherine M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; ERROR; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MANOMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; LINEAR MODELS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0036319793     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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