Timing of Intervention in Aortic Stenosis
- 9 January 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 382 (2), 191-193
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejme1914382
Abstract
Current guidelines require that in patients with severe aortic stenosis, symptoms related to the valvular disease be present for consideration of transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) or surgical aortic-valve replacement.1,2 In the absence of symptoms, only very severe aortic stenosis is an indication (class IIa) for intervention.1-3 Kang et al.3 now report in the Journal the results of a trial involving patients with asymptomatic, very severe aortic stenosis who were randomly assigned to surgical aortic-valve replacement or conservative care (clinical follow-up and observation). Outcomes (death during or within 30 days after surgery [operative mortality] or death from cardiovascular causes; death from . . .This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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