Evangelos K Oikonomou, Gregory Holste, Neal Yuan, Andreas Coppi, Robert L McNamara, Norrisa Haynes, Amit N Vora, Eric J Velazquez, Fan Li, Venu Menon, Samir R Kapadia, Thomas M Gill, Girish N Nadkarni, Harlan M Krumholz, Zhangyang Wang, David Ouyang, Rohan Khera
BACKGROUND: The timely identification of aortic stenosis (AS) and disease stage that merits intervention requires frequent echocardiography. However, there is no strategy to personalize the frequency of monitoring needed. OBJECTIVES: To explore the role of AI-enhanced two- dimensional-echocardiography in stratifying the risk of AS development and progression. METHODS: This was a multicenter study of 12,609 patients without severe AS undergoing transthoracic echocardiography in New England (n=8,798, 71 [IQR 60-80] years, n=4250 [48...
September 29, 2023: medRxiv