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JOSEPH A. KISSLO, MD: Duke Center for Echo DAVID B. ADAMS, RDCS: Duke Center for Echo	Download this document as a .pdf

Introduction

One reason for the rapid growth in the use of Doppler echocardiography is its utility in detecting and assessing the severity of valvular stenosis. Detection of the presence of stenotic valvular heart disease using Doppler echocardiography was originally described over ten years ago. It has subsequently been demonstrated that Doppler blood velocity data could be used to estimate the severity of a stenotic lesion.

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