Significance of aortic valve calcification in patients with low-gradient low-flow aortic stenosis

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-31

  Aksoy, Olcay ^a   Cam, Akin ^a   Agarwal, Shikhar ^a   Ige, Mobolaji ^a   Yousefzai, Rayan ^a   Singh, Dhssraj ^a   Griffin, Brian P ^a   Schoenhagen, Paul ^a   Kapadia, Samir R ^a   Tuzcu, Murat E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA FLOW; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE CALCIFICATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84892575464     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22212     Document Type: Article

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