RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Aortic stenosis: Who should undergo surgery, transcatheter valve replacement?
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 487
OP 497
DO 10.3949/ccjm.79a.11043
VO 79
IS 7
A1 Fadi Sawaya
A1 James Stewart
A1 Vasilis Babaliaros
YR 2012
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/79/7/487.abstract
AB Aortic stenosis, the most common valvular disease in the Western world, affects mainly people over age 60. It is characterized by years to decades of slow progression followed by rapid clinical deterioration and a high death rate once symptoms develop. Drug therapy for it remains ineffective, and surgical aortic valve replacement is the only effective long-term treatment. We discuss the indications for this surgery, with an emphasis on controversial conditions in which the indications are less well defined.