Impact of pressure recovery on echocardiographic assessment of asymptomatic aortic stenosis: A SEAS substudy

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-562

  Bahlmann, Edda ^a   Cramariuc, Dana ^b,c   Gerdts, Eva ^b,c   Gohlke Baerwolf, Christa ^d   Nienaber, Christoph A ^e   Eriksen, Erlend ^b   Wachtell, Kristian ^f   Chambers, John ^g   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a   Ray, Simon ^h  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^e Department of Cardiology Universittsklinikum Rostock ^*  (Germany)

^f Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^g GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aortic stenosis; aortic valve area; energy loss; left ventricle; sinotubular junction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA; AORTA SINUS; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESSURE RECOVERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AORTA VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ECHOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AZETIDINE DERIVATIVE; EZETIMIBE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; SIMVASTATIN;

AGED; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AZETIDINES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIMVASTATIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77956672269     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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