Hiroyuki Aoyagi, Hiroyuki Iwano, Yoji Tamaki, Michito Murayama, Suguru Ishizaka, Ko Motoi, Kosuke Nakamura, Mana Goto, Yukino Suzuki, Shinobu Yokoyama, Hisao Nishino, Sanae Kaga, Kiwamu Kamiya, Toshiyuki Nagai, Toshihisa Anzai
BACKGROUND: The assessment of left ventricular (LV) filling pressure (FP) is important for the management of aortic stenosis (AS) patients. Although, it is often restricted for predict LV FP in AS because of mitral annular calcification and a certain left ventricular hypertrophy. Thus, we tested the predictive ability of the algorithm for elevated LV FP in AS patients and also applied a recently-proposed echocardiographic scoring system of LV FP, visually assessed time difference between the mitral valve and tricuspid valve opening (VMT) score...
April 2024: Echocardiography