Integration of Flow-Gradient Patterns Into Clinical Decision Making for Patients With Suspected Severe Aortic Stenosis and Preserved LVEF: A Systematic Review of Evidence and Meta-Analysis

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1255-1263

  Bavishi, Chirag ^a   Balasundaram, Kiruthika ^a   Argulian, Edgar ^a  

^a Mount Sinai St Luke's and Mount Sinai West Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

mortality; preserved ejection fraction; severe aortic stenosis; stroke volume index

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HIGH GRADIENT AORTA STENOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW GRADIENT AORTA STENOSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESERVED LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84994410209     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.01.035     Document Type: Article

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