Recommendations on the echocardiographic assessment of aortic valve stenosis: a focused update from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the …

H Baumgartner, J Hung, J Bermejo… - European Heart …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Echocardiography is the key tool for the diagnosis and evaluation of aortic stenosis.
Because clinical decision-making is based on the echocardiographic assessment of its …

Cardiac imaging for assessing low-gradient severe aortic stenosis

MA Clavel, IG Burwash, P Pibarot - JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, 2017 - jacc.org
Up to 40% of patients with aortic stenosis (AS) harbor discordant Doppler-
echocardiographic findings, the most common of which is the presence of a small aortic …

[PDF][PDF] 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease

V Falk, H Baumgartner, JJ Bax… - European Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

Staging classification of aortic stenosis based on the extent of cardiac damage

P Généreux, P Pibarot, B Redfors, MJ Mack… - European heart …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aims In patients with aortic stenosis (AS), risk stratification for aortic valve replacement
(AVR) relies mainly on valve-related factors, symptoms and co-morbidities. We sought to …

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
Rationale: Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) is characterized by calcium deposition in valve
leaflets. However, women present lower aortic valve calcification loads than men for the …

Systolic hypertension and progression of aortic valve calcification in patients with aortic stenosis: results from the PROGRESSA study

L Tastet, R Capoulade, MA Clavel… - European Heart …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aims Hypertension is highly prevalent in patients with aortic stenosis (AS) and is associated
with worse outcomes. The current prospective study assessed the impact of systolic …

Stress testing in asymptomatic aortic stenosis

B Redfors, P Pibarot, LD Gillam, D Burkhoff, JJ Bax… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Aortic stenosis is 1 of the most common heart valve diseases among adults. When
symptoms develop, prognosis is poor, and current guidelines recommend prompt aortic …

Valve calcification in aortic stenosis: etiology and diagnostic imaging techniques

MM Izquierdo-Gómez… - BioMed research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aortic stenosis is the most common valvulopathy in the Western world. Its prevalence has
increased significantly in recent years due to population aging; hence, up to 8% of …

Effect of age and aortic valve anatomy on calcification and haemodynamic severity of aortic stenosis

M Shen, L Tastet, R Capoulade, É Larose, É Bédard… - Heart, 2017 - heart.bmj.com
Objective To evaluate the effect of age and aortic valve anatomy (tricuspid (TAV) vs bicuspid
(BAV) aortic valve) on the relationship between the aortic valve calcification (AVC) and the …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of aortic valve calcification and sex on hemodynamic progression and clinical outcomes in AS

L Tastet, M Enriquez-Sarano, R Capoulade… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is the main culprit lesion of calcific aortic valve stenosis (AS)
and is a strong determinant of AS severity and powerful risk factor for mortality (1, 2) …