Pressure recovery explains doppler overestimation of invasive pressure gradient across segmental vascular stenosis

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-31

  Giardini, Alessandro ^a   Tacy, Theresa A ^b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic coarctation; Doppler; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

AORTA; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA PRESSURE; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART OUTPUT; IN VITRO STUDY; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTA; AORTIC COARCTATION; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 76449119396     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00983.x     Document Type: Article

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