Imaging and functional testing to assess clinical and subclinical neurological events after transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement: A comprehensive review

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1950-1963

  Spaziano, Marco ^a   Francese, Dominic P ^b   Leon, Martin B ^b,c   Généreux, Philippe ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

neurological events; stroke; surgical aortic valve replacement; transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLIC PROTECTION FILTER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; REPEATABLE BATTERY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 84908374512     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.07.986     Document Type: Review

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