Use of imaging for procedural guidance during transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 512-517

  Hahn, Rebecca T ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA ROOT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84883452237     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: 15317080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e3283632b5e     Document Type: Review

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