Doppler Imaging in Aortic Stenosis: The Importance of the Nonapical Imaging Windows to Determine Severity in a Contemporary Cohort

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 780-785

  Thaden, Jeremy J ^a   Nkomo, Vuyisile T ^a   Lee, Kwang Je ^a,b   Oh, Jae K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Chung Ang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aortic root angulation; Aortic stenosis; Doppler echocardiography; Low gradient; Peak velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84934802999     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2015.02.016     Document Type: Article

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