Flow characteristics of the SAPIEN aortic valve: The importance of recognizing in-stent flow acceleration for the echocardiographic assessment of valve function

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 603-609

  Shames, Sofia ^a   Koczo, Agnes ^a   Hahn, Rebecca ^a   Jin, Zhezhen ^b   Picard, Michael H ^c   Gillam, Linda D ^d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Department of Cardiovascular Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Transcatheter aortic valve

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HUMAN; MALE; STENT; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

ACCELERATION; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861578251     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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