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Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Patients More Likely to Die, Less Likely to Undergo AVR

Patients with so-called paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for clinicians, but a new meta-analysis suggests aortic ...
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TAVR Provides ‘Acceptable’ Outcomes in Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis Patients With Poor Ventricular Function

WASHINGTON, DC—Patients with classical low-flow, low-gradient severe symptomatic aortic stenosis appear to do well following TAVR, with the multicenter TOPAS-TAVI registry demonstrating a relatively ...
Healio

TAVR’s renal benefits may outweigh mortality risk for some patients with CKD

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . TAVR may improve kidney function for more patients than it worsens in low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis.
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#13: Hemodynamic subsets in aortic stenosis: It's not so simple

Mayo Clinic cardiovascular fellow Dr Mackram Eleid joins Dr Bernard Gersh to discuss his research on the complicated subject of low flow, low gradient aortic stenosis, and particularly why it's ...
Healio

Acceleration time/ejection time ratio may stratify risk in asymptomatic aortic stenosis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with asymptomatic aortic valve stenosis, elevated acceleration time/ejection time ratio was ...
Medscape

TAVI in Heart Failure, How Much Risk Is Acceptable?

In this issue of the European Journal of Heart Failure, Gotzmann et al. [5] present the results of a TAVI population stratified by left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and mean gradient over the ...