Instantaneous Decrease in Left Ventricular Afterload during Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Results in Immediate Changes in Left Ventricular Strain

Echocardiography

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 742-748

  Swan, Amy ^a   Prakash, Roshan ^a   Chew, Derek P ^a,b   Perry, Rebecca ^a,b   Sinhal, Ajay ^a,b   Selvanayagam, Joseph B ^a,b,c   Joseph, Majo X ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

aortic stenosis; strain; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE AFTERLOAD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS AORTIC VALVE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; REVASCULARIZATION; SELF EXPANDING STENT; SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VERY ELDERLY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STROKE VOLUME; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 84952361067     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.13153     Document Type: Article

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