Inconsistent grading of aortic valve stenosis by current guidelines: Haemodynamic studies in patients with apparently normal left ventricular function

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1463-1468

  Minners, Jan ^a   Allgeier, Martin ^a   Gohlke Baerwolf, Christa ^a   Kienzle, Rolf Peter ^a   Neumann, Franz Josef ^a   Jander, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AORTA VALVE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77957108299     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.181982     Document Type: Article

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