What do you mean by aortic valve area: Geometric orifice area, effective orifice area, or Gorlin area?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 601-608

  Garcia, Damien ^a   Kadem, Lyes ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; PULSATILE FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 34447503043     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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