Predictors of mortality and outcomes of therapy in low-flow severe aortic stenosis: A placement of aortic transcatheter valves (PARTNER) trial analysis

Circulation

Volumn 127, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2316-2326

  Herrmann, Howard C ^a   Pibarot, Philippe ^b   Hueter, Irene ^c   Gertz, Zachary M ^d   Stewart, William J ^e   Kapadia, Samir ^e   Tuzcu, E Murat ^e   Babaliaros, Vasilis ^f   Thourani, Vinod ^f   Szeto, Wilson Y ^a   Bavaria, Joseph E ^a   Kodali, Susheel ^c   Hahn, Rebecca T ^c   Williams, Mathew ^c   Miller, D Craig ^g   Douglas, Pamela S ^h   Leon, Martin B ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve stenosis; Blood fow velocity; Heart valves

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; LOW FLOW SEVERE AORTA STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEART VALVES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84878924763     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.001290     Document Type: Article

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