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Echocardiography of the Aortic Valve

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Echocardiography (TTE, TEE) is currently the leading method in diagnostics of valve diseases. It is an initial examination in suspicion of valve disease due to its accessibility, simplicity, and non-invasivity. Echocardiography is a highly reliable method in the disease aetiology and significance assessment and it is important in treatment decision. It does not use radiation and so it is arbitrarily repeatable and optimal in monitoring of patients with valve disease. Together with clinical examination, it precisely determines timing and type of surgery. Perioperative TEE is indispensable in the assessment of the result of surgery, particularly in valve-sparing procedures. Early post-operative echocardiography is the first examination in the assessment of post-operative complications. In the long-term follow-up, echocardiography is used for follow-up of patients with residual valve disease.

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  1. Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Martin Tuna M.D.

  2. Department of Cardiac Surgery, 1st Department of Internal Medicine – Cardioangiology, Charles University, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Brtko M.D., Ph.D.

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Tuna, M., Brtko, M. (2018). Echocardiography of the Aortic Valve. In: Vojacek, J., Zacek, P., Dominik, J. (eds) Aortic Regurgitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74213-7_11

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