Validation of Conventional and Simplified Methods to Calculate Projected Valve Area at Normal Flow Rate in Patients With Low Flow, Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis: The Multicenter TOPAS (True or Pseudo Severe Aortic Stenosis) Study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 380-386

  Clavel, Marie Annick ^a   Burwash, Ian G ^b   Mundigler, Gerald ^c   Dumesnil, Jean G ^a   Baumgartner, Helmut ^d   Bergler Klein, Jutta ^c   Sénéchal, Mario ^a   Mathieu, Patrick ^a   Couture, Christian ^a   Beanlands, Rob ^b   Pibarot, Philippe ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik B   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Left ventricular dysfunction; Stress echocardiography; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; AORTA VALVE AREA; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROGNOSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77950113956     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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