Assessment of low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis: Multimodality imaging is the key to success

EuroIntervention

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages U52-U60

  Clavel, Marie Annick ^a   Pibarot, Philippe ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Computed tomography; Doppler echocardiography; Low flow

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DOBUTAMINE;

AORTA FLOW; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE CALCIFICATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOW FLOW LOW GRADIENT AORTIC STENOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PARADOXICAL LOW FLOW LOW GRADIENT AORTIC STENOSIS; PSEUDO SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRUE SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84907559826     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV10SUA8     Document Type: Review

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