Valve replacement for aortic stenosis normalizes subendocardial function in patients with normal ejection fraction

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 608-613

  Lindqvist, Per ^a,b   Bajraktari, Gani ^d   Molle, Roberta ^e   Palmerini, Elizabetta ^e   Holmgren, Anders ^a,c   Mondillo, Sergio ^e   Henein, Michael Y ^a,b  

^a Cardiothoracic Division   (Sweden)

^b Public Health and Clinical Medicine   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY CLINICAL CENTER OF KOSOVO   (Serbia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; LV function; Valve replacement surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77955453878     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jeq026     Document Type: Article

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