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18402539

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-4-11
pubmed:abstractText
Increased life-expectancy has led to a growing elderly population frequently presenting with aortic stenosis. This review focuses on the pathogenesis of calcific aortic stenosis, diagnosis and possible ways to halt the progression to severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, methods of assessing symptoms and severity, and modalities and timing of aortic valve replacement. At present the treatment of aortic stenosis for the majority of patients is surgical, and any patient with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis should be considered for aortic valve replacement. This article also discusses the role of emerging techniques of closed heart valve implantation either transfemoral or transapical, and which patients might be candidates for these new approaches to the treatment of aortic stenosis in the elderly population.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1744-8344
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
491-501
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Optimum management of elderly patients with calcified aortic stenosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Room Bd 569, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. a.kappetein@erasmusmc.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review