Extent and distribution of calcification of both the aortic annulus and the left ventricular outflow tract predict aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

EuroIntervention

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 732-738

  Buellesfeld, Lutz ^a   Stortecky, Stefan ^a   Heg, Dik ^b   Gloekler, Steffen ^a   Meier, Bernhard ^a   Wenaweser, Peter ^a   Windecker, Stephan ^a,b  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic annulus; Calcification; Outflow tract; Transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPLANTATION; LEFT CORONARY CUSP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY CUSP; SELF EXPANDING STENT; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84908264633     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV10I6A126     Document Type: Article

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