American College of Cardiology

BONOW ET AL., ACC/AHA TASK FORCE REPORT
JACC Vol. 32, No. 5, November 1998:1486-1588

Figure 2.   Management strategy for patients with chronic severe aortic regurgitation. Preoperative coronary angiography should be performed routinely as determined by age, symptoms, and coronary risk factors. Cardiac catheterization and angiography may also be helpful when there is discordance between clinical findings and echocardiography. In some centers, serial follow-up may be performed with RVG or MRI rather than echocardiography to assess LV volume and systolic function. Abbreviations: DD = end-diastolic dimension, RVG = radionuclide ventriculography, SD = end-systolic dimension.

 

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