Low-flow, low-gradient severe aortic stenosis in patients with normal ejection fraction

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 524-530

  Dumesnil, Jean G ^a   Pibarot, Philippe ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aortic stenosis; left ventricular ejection fraction; low flow; low gradient; valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

EZETIMIBE; SIMVASTATIN;

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE COMPLIANCE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84883461294     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: 15317080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e32836245e0     Document Type: Review

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