Lack of progress in valvular heart disease in the pre-transcatheter aortic valve replacement era: Increasing deaths and minimal change in mortality rate over the past three decades

American Heart Journal

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Coffey, Sean ^a,b   Cox, Brian ^a   Williams, Michael J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX RATIO; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897035414     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.12.030     Document Type: Article

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