Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival benefits for ...

Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.

At baseline, the mechanical valve group tended to be younger (55.7 vs 65.2) and had less aortic stenois (82.4% vs 89.5%), but ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.

The Medicare data contradict results from the TCW randomized trial but better represent real-world practice, say authors.

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The advent of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI ... comprehensive geriatric assessment linked to a frailty index, such as the Rockwood Frailty Index, (B) a multidimensional frailty index ...

AVCS, aortic valve calcium score; PPM, permanent pacemaker ... The model with AVCS had a significantly higher c-index compared with the model without AVCS (0.79 vs 0.77, p=0.036), indicating greater ...