Inconsistent echocardiographic grading of aortic stenosis: Is the left ventricular outflow tract important?

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 921-931

  Michelena, Hector I ^a   Margaryan, Edit ^a   Miller, Fletcher A ^a   Eleid, Mackram ^a   Maalouf, Joseph ^a   Suri, Rakesh ^a   Messika Zeitoun, David ^b   Pellikka, Patricia A ^a   Enriquez Sarano, Maurice ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE AREA; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE MEAN GRADIENT; AORTIC VALVE PEAK VELOCITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT DIAMETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84878809091     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302881     Document Type: Article

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