Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Comprehensive Review and Present Status.

ABSTRACT: Aortic stenosis is the most common valvular heart disease in the developed world. About 7% of the population over age 65 years suffers from degenerative aortic stenosis. The prognosis of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis is dismal without valve replacement. Even though the American College of Cardiology recommends aortic valve replacement to treat this condition as a class I recommendation, approximately one third of these patients over the age of 75 years are not referred for surgery. Typically, this is from concern about prohibitive surgical risk associated with patient frailty, comorbidities, age, and severe left ventricular dysfunction. The advent in France of transcatheter aortic valve replacement has raised the hope in the United States for an alternative, less invasiv

SUBMITTER: Arora S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5317356 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature