Morphological and functional cardiac changes in TAVI follow-up: evaluation through transthoracic echocardiography

Background: Aortic stenosis is a valvular disease with increasing prevalence. The most common etiology of aortic stenosis is degenerative calcification of the leaflets due to lipid accumulation, fibrosis, and inflammation, usually present in older individuals, and has bad prognosis when becomes symp...

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Main Author: Fonseca, Virgínia (author)
Other Authors: Costa, Ana (author), Antunes, Inês (author), Lobato, João (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/8550
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipl.pt:10400.21/8550