Aortic annular sizing using a novel 3-dimensional echocardiographic method use and comparison with cardiac computed tomography

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 155-163

  Khalique, Omar K ^a   Kodali, Susheel K ^a   Paradis, Jean Michel ^a   Nazif, Tamim M ^a   Williams, Mathew R ^a   Einstein, Andrew J ^a   Pearson, Gregory D ^a   Harjai, Kishore ^a   Grubb, Kendra ^a   George, Isaac ^a   Leon, Martin B ^a   Hahn, Rebecca T ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve insufficiency; Aortic valve stenosis; Echocardiography; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AORTA; AORTA STENOSIS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AREA UNDER CURVE; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893700681     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.001153     Document Type: Article

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