Relationship between cutoff values of peak aortic valve velocity and those of other Doppler echocardiographic parameters of severity in patients with aortic stenosis and normal flow

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1150-1156

  Castel, Anne Laure ^a   Maréchaux, Sylvestre ^b   Laaouaj, Jamal ^a   Rusinaru, Dan ^a   Levy, Franck ^a   Tribouilloy, Christophe ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

aortic valve stenosis; echocardiography; surgery

Indexed keywords

AORTA FLOW; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84868200503     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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