Detecting aortic valve bicuspidy in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis: High diagnostic accuracy of colour Doppler transoesophageal echocardiography

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-20

  Zegdi, Rachid ^a,b   Ciobotaru, Vlad ^a,b   Huerre, Clémence ^a,b   Allam, Bachir ^b   Bouabdallaoui, Nadia ^b   Berrebi, Alain ^b   Florens, Emmanuelle ^b   Fabiani, Jean Noël ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Aortic bicuspidy; Aortic stenosis; Colour Doppler; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84871768813     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs382     Document Type: Article

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