Aortic valve calcification as quantified with multislice computed tomography predicts short-term clinical outcome in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-498

  Feuchtner, Gudrun M ^a   Müller, Silvana ^a   Grander, Wilhelm ^a   Alber, Hannes F ^a   Bartel, Thomas ^a   Friedrich, Guy J ^a   Reinthaler, Markus ^a   Pachinger, Otmar ^a   zur Nedden, Dieter ^a   Dichtl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746394181     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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