Going beyond classic echo in aortic stenosis: left atrial mechanics, a new marker of severity.
Patrícia Marques AlvesAna Vera MarinhoRogério TeixeiraRui BaptistaGraça CastroRui MartinsLino GonçalvesPublished in: BMC cardiovascular disorders (2019)
LA global strain was the best discriminator of severity, surpassing E/e' ratio and LV-GLS, and a significant predictor of prognosis in AS.
Keyphrases
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- left ventricular
- ejection fraction
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- mitral valve
- aortic valve
- atrial fibrillation
- catheter ablation
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance
- coronary artery disease
- contrast enhanced
- diffusion weighted
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted imaging