Myocardial blood flow in patients with low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis: Differences between true and pseudo-severe aortic stenosis. Results from the multicentre TOPAS (Truly or Pseudo-Severe Aortic Stenosis) study

Heart

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1627-1633

  Burwash, I G ^a   Lortie, M ^a   Pibarot, P ^b   De Kemp, R A ^a   Graf, S ^c   Mundigler, G ^c   Khorsand, A ^c   Blais, C ^b   Baumgartner, H ^c   Dumesnil, J G ^b   Hachicha, Z ^b   DaSilva, J ^a   Beanlands, R S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749107762     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.135475     Document Type: Article

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