BookAmr E. Abbas, editor.
Contents:
1. General considerations and etiologies of aortic stenosis
2. Clinical assessment of the severity of aortic stenosis
3. Physiological basis for area and gradient assessment: hemodynamic principles of aortic stenosis
4. Different classifications of aortic stenosis
5. Invasive evaluation of aortic stenosis
6. Echocardiographic evaluation of aortic valve stenosis
7. Complimentary role of CT/MRI in the assessment of aortic stenosis
8. Area and gradient mismatch: the discordance of a small valve area and low gradients
9. Reverse area and gradient mismatch: the discordance of a large valve area and high gradients
10. Prosthetic aortic valves and diagnostic challenges
11. Risk prediction models, guidelines, special populations, outcomes
12. Surgical management of aortic valve stenosis
13. Balloon aortic valvuloplasty
14. Imaging for transcatheter aortic valve replacement
15. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
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