Classical methods to measure aortic valve area in the era of new invasive therapies: Still accurate enough?

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-185

  Delgado, Victoria ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CALCULATION; CATHETERIZATION; CONSENSUS; EDITORIAL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 59249083167     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-008-9365-6     Document Type: Editorial

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