Risk stratification in asymptomatic moderate to severe aortic stenosis: The importance of the valvular, arterial and ventricular interplay

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1364-1371

  Lancellotti, Patrizio ^a   Donal, Erwan ^b   Magne, Julien ^a   Moonen, Marie ^a   O'Connor, Kim ^a   Daubert, Jean Claude ^b   Pierard, Luc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956169201     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.190942     Document Type: Article

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