SCCT expert consensus document on computed tomography imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)/transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 366-380

  Achenbach, Stephan ^a   Delgado, Victoria ^b   Hausleiter, Jörg ^c   Schoenhagen, Paul ^d   Min, James K ^e   Leipsic, Jonathon A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compute tomography; Guidelines; TAVI; TAVR; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation; Transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY FUNCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK FACTOR; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVE;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS FITTING; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870743337     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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