Recommendations on the Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Focused Update from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography

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 severity, it is essential that standards are adopted to maintain accuracy and consistency across echocardiographic laboratories....

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography Jg. 30; H. 4; S. 372
Hauptverfasser: Baumgartner, Helmut, Hung, Judy, Bermejo, Javier, Chambers, John B, Edvardsen, Thor, Goldstein, Steven, Lancellotti, Patrizio, LeFevre, Melissa, Miller, Jr, Fletcher, Otto, Catherine M
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States 01.04.2017
Schlagworte:
Aortic Valve Stenosis - complications
Aortic Valve Stenosis - diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve Stenosis - pathology
Cardiac Imaging Techniques - standards
Echocardiography - standards
Europe
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Image Enhancement - standards
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction - diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction - etiology
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction - pathology
Aortic stenosis
Echocardiography
Computed tomography
Quantification
Prognostic parameters
ISSN:1097-6795, 1097-6795
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Zusammenfassung: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 severity, it is essential that standards are adopted to maintain accuracy and consistency across echocardiographic laboratories. Detailed recommendations for the echocardiographic assessment of valve stenosis were published by the European Association of Echocardiography and the American Society of Echocardiography in 2009. In the meantime, numerous new studies on aortic stenosis have been published with particular new insights into the difficult subgroup of low gradient aortic stenosis making an update of recommendations necessary. The document focuses in particular on the optimization of left ventricular outflow tract assessment, low flow, low gradient aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction, a new classification of aortic stenosis by gradient, flow and ejection fraction, and a grading algorithm for an integrated and stepwise approach of aortic stenosis assessment in clinical practice.
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DOI:10.1016/j.echo.2017.02.009