Standardized imaging for aortic annular sizing: Implications for transcatheter valve selection

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 249-262

  Kasel, Albert M ^a   Cassese, Salvatore ^a   Bleiziffer, Sabine ^a   Amaki, Makoto ^b   Hahn, Rebecca T ^c   Kastrati, Adnan ^a   Sengupta, Partho P ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Computed tomography; Echocardiography; Patient selection; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Indexed keywords

AORTA ROOT; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC ANNULAR SIZING; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC IMAGING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

AORTIC VALVE; BALLOON VALVULOPLASTY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84881330796     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.12.005     Document Type: Review

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