Simultaneous determination of aortic valve area by the Gorlin formula and by transesophageal echocardiography under different transvalvular flow conditions. Evidence that anatomic aortic valve area does not change with variations in flow in aortic stenosis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1296-1302

  Tardif, Jean Claude ^a   Rodrigues, Andressa Giestas ^a   Hardy, Jean François ^a   Leclerc, Yves ^a   Petitclerc, Robert ^a   Mongrain, Rosaire ^a   Mercier, Lise Andrée ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA FLOW; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0343765766     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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