Therapeutic Decision-Making and Outcomes in Elderly Patients With Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis: Prognostic Implications of Elderly Patients' Initial Decisions.

ABSTRACT: Background: Despite clear indications for intervention, therapeutic decision-making for elderly patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) remains a complex issue due to the wide variation in individual risk profiles and the involvement of patients' subjective preferences. We aimed to investigate the reasons leading to the decisions against intervention and the consequences thereof on survival. Methods: Data were derived from the China Elderly Valve Disease (China-DVD) Cohort Study on patients aged ≥60-year-old with severe symptomatic AS consecutively enrolled between September to December 2016. Patients were analyzed according to the initial therapeutic decisions made by consensus between patients and physicians at the time of the index evaluation: intervention gr

SUBMITTER: Zhao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350052 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature