The art of assessing aortic stenosis

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2012, Pages

  Rajani, Ronak ^a   Hancock, Jane ^a   Chambers, John B ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; BALLOON AORTIC ANGIOPLASTY; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GUIDE WIRE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HUMAN; METAL STENT; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NITINOL STENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SELF EXPANDING STENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84869054712     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302392     Document Type: Review

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