Low-Flow, low-gradient severe aortic stenosis despite normal ejection fraction is associated with severe left ventricular dysfunction as assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography a multicenter study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-35

  Adda, Jérôme ^a   Mielot, Christopher ^a   Giorgi, Roch ^a,b   Cransac, Frédéric ^c   Zirphile, Xavier ^c   Donal, Erwan ^d   Sportouch Dukhan, Catherine ^c   Réant, Patricia ^c   Laffitte, Stéphane ^c   Cade, Stéphane ^c   Le Dolley, Yvan ^a   Thuny, Franck ^a   Touboul, Nathalie ^a   Lavoute, Cécile ^a   Avierinos, Jean François ^a   Lancellotti, Patrizio ^e   Habib, Gilbert ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Department of Cardiology ^*  (France)

^d RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aorta; Echocardiography; Stenosis; Valves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84858304962     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.967554     Document Type: Article

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