Outcomes and survival with aortic valve replacement compared with medical therapy in patients with low-, moderate-, and severe-gradient severe aortic stenosis and normal left ventricular ejection fraction

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 378-387

  Belkin, Robert N ^a   Khalique, Omar ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Ahn, Chul ^b   Sharma, Mala ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic valve gradient; aortic valve stenosis; aortic valve surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955047324     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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