Discrepancies between catheter and Doppler estimates of aortic stenosis: The role of pressure recovery evaluated 'in vivo'

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-229

  Razzolini, Renato ^a,b   Manica, Anna ^a   Tarantini, Giuseppe ^a   Ramondo, Angelo ^a   Napodano, Massimo ^a   Iliceto, Sabino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Clinica Cardiologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34250003493     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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