Calcium scoring to classify aortic valve stenosis severity: what is the current data?

A Powers, MA Clavel - Current Cardiology Reports, 2023 - Springer
… of aortic valve calcification (AVC) in classifying aortic valve … Non-enhanced CT aortic valve
calcium scoring is a widely … AS severity in patients with discordant hemodynamic AS severity, …

Grading of Aortic Valve Calcification Severity and Risk Stratification in Aortic Stenosis

L Tastet, M Ali, P Pibarot, R Capoulade… - … of the American Heart …, 2024 - ahajournals.org
… have discordant moderate versus severe grading with the combination of severe aortic valve
… Further studies are needed to corroborate these findings and enhance our understanding

Sex-related discordance between aortic valve calcification and hemodynamic severity of aortic stenosis: is valvular fibrosis the explanation?

L Simard, N Cote, F Dagenais, P Mathieu… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
… factor concerning calcification delay or even as a player in the complex … At term, we hope
that new insights concerning the … In this population, aortic valve calcium scoring by MDCT has …

Diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of aortic valve calcium scoring in patients with moderate-to-severe aortic stenosis

J Boulif, A Slimani, S Lazam, C De Meester… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Our data further indicate that patients with discordant AS grading … results of recent natural
history studies have indicated that severe … To get further insight into the pathophysiology of this …

Aortic valve calcification and outcomes in severe aortic stenosis

WA Courtney, CJ Schultz, GS Hillis - Heart, 2023 - heart.bmj.com
… is discordance between echocardiographic indices of disease severity, such as markedly
reduced aortic valvedisease grading: new insights from combined Doppler echocardiographic …

[HTML][HTML] Aortic valve stenosis: evaluation and management of patients with discordant grading

D Messika-Zeitoun, G Lloyd - E-journal Cardiol Pract, 2018 - escardio.org
… with discordant grading (AVA <1 cm², MPG <40 mmHg) and a low flow had the worst prognosis
(Figure 2). Our understandingAortic valve calcification is the leading process of AS. [8] In …

Why and how to measure aortic valve calcification in patients with aortic stenosis

T Pawade, T Sheth, E Guzzetti, MR Dweck… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2019 - jacc.org
aortic stenosis severity is discordant, leading to clinical uncertainty. Interest has therefore
grown in aortic valve calcium scoring … well as potentially providing insight into other procedural …

Discordant grading of aortic stenosis severity: echocardiographic predictors of survival benefit associated with aortic valve replacement

M Berthelot-Richer, P Pibarot, R Capoulade… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2016 - jacc.org
… COMPETENCY IN MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE: The findings of this study emphasize the … the
benefit of AVR according to aortic valve calcification as measured by computed tomography in …

How do we reconcile echocardiography, computed tomography, and hybrid imaging in assessing discordant grading of aortic stenosis severity?

V Delgado, MA Clavel, RT Hahn, L Gillam, J Bax… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2019 - jacc.org
… In addition to measurement or acquisition errors, understanding the physiologic … (E, F) The
noncontrast MDCT show a severely calcified aortic valve, with an AVC at 1,377 AU. Even after …

Discordant severity criteria in patients with moderate aortic stenosis: prognostic implications

SM Pio, MR Amanullah, SC Butcher, KY Sin… - … heart, 2021 - openheart.bmj.com
… . The complex nature of discordant severe calcified aortic valve disease grading: new insights
from combined Doppler echocardiographic and computed tomographic study. J Am Coll …