Transesophageal echocardiography for cardiac thromboembolic risk assessment in patients with severe, symptomatic aortic valve stenosis referred for potential transcatheter aortic valve implantation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1470-1474

  Lenders, Guy D ^a   Paelinck, Bernard P ^a   Wouters, Kristien ^a   Claeys, Marc J ^a   Rodrigus, Inez E ^a   Van Herck, Paul L ^a   Vrints, Christiaan J ^a   Bosmans, Johan M ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BELGIUM; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84876955305     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.01.302     Document Type: Article

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