Measurement of effective aortic valve area using three-dimensional echocardiography in children undergoing aortic balloon valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 484-491

  Bharucha, Tara ^a   Fernandes, Fernanda ^a   Slorach, Cameron ^a   Mertens, Luc ^a   Friedberg, Mark Kevin ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

aortic valve; congenital heart disease; three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA BALLOON; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; INFANT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859760860     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01595.x     Document Type: Review

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