Validation of the peak to mean pressure decrease ratio as a new method of assessing aortic stenosis using the gorlin formula and the cardiovascular magnetic resonance-based hybrid method

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 335-339

  Haghi, Dariusch ^a   Kaden, Jens J ^a   Suselbeck, Tim ^a   Fluechter, Stephan ^a   Breithardt, Ole A ^a   Poerner, Tudor ^a   Kalmar, Gabor ^a   Borggrefe, Martin ^a   Papavassiliu, Theano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 33947387488     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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