Ultrasound-based aortic valve calcium scoring method: Are we ready to use it?

Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) is the most frequent valvular heart disease in developed countries [1]. Aortic valve calcification (AVC) burden measures lesion severity in AS and is useful for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. Indeed: 1. AVC is strongly but nonlinearly associated with hemodynamic measures of AS severity [2]; 2. AVC can help to discriminate severe from nonsevere AS in patients with discordant echocardiographic findings (normal flow-low gradient and low flow-low gradient AS with small valve area); and 3.
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research