Hemodynamic assessment of severe aortic stenosis: MRI evaluation of dynamic changes of vena contracta

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Weininger, Markus ^a,b   Sagmeister, Florian ^a   Herrmann, Sebastian ^c   Lange, Volkmar ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Beissert, Matthias ^a   Voelker, Wolfram ^c   Koestler, Herbert ^a   Hahn, Dietbert ^a   Weidemann, Frank ^c   Beer, Meinrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Division of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic stenosis; aortic valve area; cardiac MRI; vena contracta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; SYSTOLE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 78650777261     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181f79ca2     Document Type: Article

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