Stress echocardiography to assess stenosis severity and predict outcome in patients with paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis and preserved LVEF

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-183

  Clavel, Marie Annick ^a   Ennezat, Pierre Vladimir ^b   Maréchaux, Sylvestre ^b   Dumesnil, Jean G ^a   Capoulade, Romain ^a   Hachicha, Zeineb ^a   Mathieu, Patrick ^a   Bellouin, Annaïk ^b   Bergeron, Sébastien ^a   Meimoun, Patrick ^c   Arsenault, Marie ^a   Le Tourneau, Thierry ^d   Pasquet, Agnès ^e   Couture, Christian ^a   Pibarot, Philippe ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Centre Hospitalier Compiegne   (France)

^d L INSTITUT DU THORAX   (France)

^e CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Dobutamine stress echocardiography; Exercise stress echocardiography; Low flow aortic stenosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARADOXICAL LOW FLOW LOW GRADIENT AORTIC STENOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84880527772     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.10.015     Document Type: Review

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