Echocardiographic Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valves

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-12

  Mahjoub, Haïfa ^a   Pibarot, Philippe ^a   Dumesnil, Jean Gaston ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Prosthetic heart valves; Regurgitation; Stenosis; Transcatheter heart valves

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BODY SURFACE; DEVICE FAILURE; DEVICE SAFETY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE ORIFICE AREA; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VALVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PROSTHESIS PATIENT MISMATCH; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSCATHETER VALVE STENOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84958182658     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-015-0602-z     Document Type: Review

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