Stenotic aortic valve area: Should it be calculated from CT instead of echocardiographic data?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 258-260

  Flachskampf, Frank A ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aortic stenosis; diagnostic method; echocardiography; multidetector CT; survival

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84924415745     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.12.012     Document Type: Editorial

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