Echocardiography underestimates stroke volume and aortic valve area: Implications for patients with small-area low-gradient aortic stenosis

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1064-1072

  Chin, Calvin W L ^a,b   Khaw, Hwan J ^a   Luo, Elton ^a   Tan, Shuwei ^a   White, Audrey C ^a   Newby, David E ^a   Dweck, Marc R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 84906282604     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.04.021     Document Type: Article

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