Prevalence of comorbidities and associated cardiac diseases in patients with valve aortic stenosis. Potential implications for the decision-making process

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-99

  Faggiano, Pompilio ^a,b   Frattini, Silvia ^a,b   Zilioli, Valentina ^a,b   Rossi, Andrea ^c   Nistri, Stefano ^d   Dini, Frank L ^e   Lorusso, Roberto ^f   Tomasi, Cesare ^a   Cas, Livio Dei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b Spedali Civili   (Italy)

^c BORGO TRENTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CMSR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f Spedali Civili   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Aortic valve stenosis; Balloon valvuloplasty; EuroSCORE; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEMIA; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA DILATATION; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PORCELAIN AORTA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84865017515     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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