RT Book, Section
A1 Rahman, Ayaz
A1 Cribier, Alain
A1 Babaliaros, Vasilis
A2 Samady, Habib
A2 Fearon, William F.
A2 Yeung, Alan C.
A2 King III, Spencer B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1146603588
T1 Patient Selection, Procedural Techniques, and Complications of Balloon-Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
T2 Interventional Cardiology, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071820363
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146603588
RD 2024/04/24
AB Aortic  stenosis  (AS)  is  the  most  common  acquired  valvular  disease  in  adults.1  The  incidence  of  AS  has  steadily  increased  along  with  population  life  expectancy  and  age,  affecting  almost  5%  of  patients  over  the  age  of  75  years.2  The  most  common  cause  of  valvular  AS  in  adults  is  calcification  of  a  normal  trileaflet  valve  or  a  congenital  bicuspid  valve.3  Severe  symptomatic  AS  has  a  poor  prognosis  when  treated  medically,  with  a  mortality  of  almost  80%  at  2  years.4  Surgical  aortic  valve  replacement  (SAVR)  is  currently  the  standard  of  care  and  accepted  to  alleviate  symptoms  and  prolong  survival;  however,  up  to  one-third  of  patients  are  denied  SAVR  because  of  prohibitive  surgical  risk  (eg,  advanced  age,  significant  left  ventricular  dysfunction).5