Assessment of aortic regurgitation by color flow and continuous-wave Doppler echocardiography.
This study describes a Doppler echocardiographic method for assessing the severity of aortic regurgitation based on the product of the velocity time integral and cross-sectional area of the aortic regurgitation jet. This method was found to be highly productive of the angiographic grade of aortic regurgitation with minimal overlap between grades.
Dalal
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Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Nagy
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B
Berger
M
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Hecht
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Hupart
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P
Sherman
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W
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged