Usefulness of Global Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain for Risk Stratification in Low Ejection Fraction, Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis: Results from the Multicenter True or Pseudo-Severe Aortic Stenosis Study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Dahou, Abdellaziz ^a   Bartko, Philipp Emanuel ^b   Capoulade, Romain ^a   Clavel, Marie Annick ^a   Mundigler, Gerald ^b   Grondin, Samuel Larue ^a   Bergler Klein, Jutta ^b   Burwash, Ian ^c   Dumesnil, Jean G ^a   Sénéchal, Mario ^a   O'Connor, Kim ^a   Baumgartner, Helmut ^d   Pibarot, Philippe ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

aortic valve stenosis; echocardiography, stress; longitudinal strain; low flow; low gradient; outcome measures

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE;

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOBAL LEFT VENTRICULAR LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; REST; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; AORTA VALVE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84927171077     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.114.002117     Document Type: Article

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