Rob Eerdekens, Pim Tonino, Jo Zelis, Rik Adrichem, Jung-Min Ahn, Jesse Demandt, Ashkan Eftekhari, Mohamed El Farissi, Phillip Freeman, Abdul Rahman Ihdayhid, Nikolaos Kakouros, Dae-Hee Kim, Seung-Ah Lee, Nicolas M Van Mieghem, Waqas Qureshi, Nils P Johnson
Background: Moderate aortic valve stenosis occurs twice as often as severe aortic stenosis (AS) and carries a similarly poor prognosis. Current European and American guidelines offer limited insight into moderate AS (MAS) patients with unexplained symptoms. Measuring valve physiology at rest while most patients experience symptoms during exertion might represent a conceptual limitation in the current grading of AS severity. The stress aortic valve index (SAVI) may delineate hemodynamically significant AS among patients with MAS...
August 2022: IJC Heart & Vasculature