Aortic Stenosis: Case-Based Diagnosis and Therapy

✍ Scribed by Amr E. Abbas (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

​With the advent of less invasive treatments for aortic stenosis including percutaneous and apical replacement, more patients are being offered this technology. As such, determining the true severity of aortic stenosis is becoming paramount. Many clinical scenarios occur where the area and gradient estimates of severity do not match. This book will present case by case examples of different patients with a wide variety of aortic stenosis. It will assist cardiologists in identifying patients with true aortic stenosis who may benefit from valve replacement. It will also highlight the role and advent of new technology as the role of CTA, MRI, and 3D echo for diagnosis and TAVR and mini surgery for treatment​. The audience will range from clinical cardiologists, imaging cardiologists and interventionalists alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
General Considerations and Etiologies of Aortic Stenosis....Pages 1-20
Clinical Assessment of the Severity of Aortic Stenosis....Pages 21-28
Physiological Basis for Area and Gradient Assessment: Hemodynamic Principles of Aortic Stenosis....Pages 29-48
Different Classifications of Aortic Stenosis....Pages 49-54
Invasive Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis....Pages 55-69
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Aortic Valve Stenosis....Pages 71-90
Complimentary Role of CT/MRI in the Assessment of Aortic Stenosis....Pages 91-116
Area and Gradient Mismatch: The Discordance of a Small Valve Area and Low Gradients....Pages 117-128
Reverse Area and Gradient Mismatch: The Discordance of a Large Valve Area and High Gradients....Pages 129-145
Prosthetic Aortic Valves and Diagnostic Challenges....Pages 147-169
Risk Prediction Models, Guidelines, Special Populations, and Outcomes....Pages 171-196
Surgical Management of Aortic Valve Stenosis....Pages 197-217
Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty....Pages 219-230
Imaging for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement....Pages 231-251
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement....Pages 253-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-279

✦ Subjects

Cardiology; Interventional Radiology; Diagnostic Radiology; Imaging / Radiology; Minimally Invasive Surgery