The complex nature of discordant severe calcified aortic valve disease grading: New insights from combined Doppler echocardiographic and computed tomographic study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 2329-2338

  Clavel, Marie Annick ^a   Messika Zeitoun, David ^b,c   Pibarot, Philippe ^d   Aggarwal, Shivani R ^a   Malouf, Joseph ^a   Araoz, Phillip A ^a   Michelena, Hector I ^a   Cueff, Caroline ^b   Larose, Eric ^d   Capoulade, Romain ^d   Vahanian, Alec ^b,c   Enriquez Sarano, Maurice ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aortic valve calcification; aortic valve stenosis; Doppler echocardiography; multidetector computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE CALCIFICATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AORTIC VALVE AREA INDEXED TO BODY SURFACE AREA; AORTIC VALVE CALCIFICATION; AORTIC VALVE CALCIFICATION INDEXED TO BODY SURFACE AREA; AORTIC VALVE CALCIFICATION INDEXED TO THE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF THE AORTIC ANNULUS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ARBITRARY UNITS; AU; AVAI; AVC; AVCD; AVCI; CG; CONCORDANT GRADING; DG; DISCORDANT GRADING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LEFT VENTRICULAR; LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT; LV; LVEF; LVOT; MDCT; MEAN GRADIENT; MG; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PEAK AORTIC JET VELOCITY; RECEIVER-OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROC; STROKE VOLUME; STROKE VOLUME INDEXED TO BODY SURFACE AREA; SV; SVI; VMAX;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84890039575     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.08.1621     Document Type: Article

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