Echocardiographic assessment of aortic stenosis: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography

Liam Ring; Benoy N Shah; Sanjeev Bhattacharyya; Allan Harkness; Mark Belham; David Oxborough; Keith Pearce; Bushra S Rana; Daniel X Augustine; Shaun Robinson; Christophe Tribouilloy

doi:10.1530/ERP-20-0035

Echocardiographic assessment of aortic stenosis: a practical guideline from the British Society of Echocardiography

Echo Res Pract. 2021 Apr 28;8(1):G19-G59. doi: 10.1530/ERP-20-0035.

Authors

Liam Ring¹, Benoy N Shah², Sanjeev Bhattacharyya³, Allan Harkness⁴, Mark Belham⁵, David Oxborough⁶, Keith Pearce⁷, Bushra S Rana^{8

9}, Daniel X Augustine^{10

11}, Shaun Robinson¹², Christophe Tribouilloy¹³

Affiliations

¹ West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Bury St Edmunds, UK.
² University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
³ St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts' Heart Centre, London, UK.
⁴ East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Colchester, UK.
⁵ Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
⁶ Liverpool John Moores University, Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Physiology, Liverpool, UK.
⁷ Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.
⁸ Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁹ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London.
¹⁰ Royal United Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
¹¹ Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
¹² North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough, UK.
¹³ University Hospital Amiens, Amiens, France.

Abstract

The guideline provides a practical step-by-step guide in order to facilitate high-quality echocardiographic studies of patients with aortic stenosis. In addition, it addresses commonly encountered yet challenging clinical scenarios and covers the use of advanced echocardiographic techniques, including TOE and Dobutamine stress echocardiography in the assessment of aortic stenosis.

Keywords: aortic stenosis; guideline.