Clinical outcomes of patients with low-flow, low-gradient, severe aortic stenosis and either preserved or reduced ejection fraction undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation

European Heart Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 3437-3450

  O'Sullivan, Crochan J ^a,b   Stortecky, Stefan ^a   Heg, Dik ^b,c   Pilgrim, Thomas ^a   Hosek, Nicola ^a   Buellesfeld, Lutz ^a   Khattab, Ahmed A ^a   Nietlispach, Fabian ^a   Moschovitis, Aris ^a   Zanchin, Thomas ^a   Meier, Bernhard ^a   Windecker, Stephan ^a,c   Wenaweser, Peter ^a,b  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Hemodynamics; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; LOW FLOW LOW GRADIENT SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARADOXICAL LOW FLOW LOW GRADIENT SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC STENOSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84890500394     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht408     Document Type: Article

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