[Identification of high risk patients with severe, but asymptomatic aortic stenosis]

R Rosenhek; T Binder; G Porenta; I Lang; G Christ; M Schemper; G Maurer; H Baumgartner

doi:10.1046/j.1563-2571.2001.01007.x

[Identification of high risk patients with severe, but asymptomatic aortic stenosis]

Acta Med Austriaca. 2001;28(1):27-9. doi: 10.1046/j.1563-2571.2001.01007.x.

[Article in German]

Authors

R Rosenhek¹, T Binder, G Porenta, I Lang, G Christ, M Schemper, G Maurer, H Baumgartner

Affiliation

¹ Klinische Abteilung für Kardiologie, Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin II, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien. [email protected]

PMID: 11253629
DOI: 10.1046/j.1563-2571.2001.01007.x

Abstract

Whether asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis benefit from surgery remains unclear. We report our data recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the natural history of this disease and predictors of outcome.

Publication types

English Abstract

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnosis*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / mortality
Aortic Valve Stenosis / physiopathology*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery
Disease-Free Survival
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Time Factors