Aortic Stenosis (AS) is the most common primary valve disease leading to surgery or catheter intervention in Europe and North America.1 It is present in approximately 2% of the general population with a rising prevalence in the elderly (up to 6% in patients above 85 years old).2-4
Symptomatic AS has significant effects on a patient’s health and quality of life5,6 and many will have cardiovascular and other comorbidities, for example, other valvular diseases, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and peripheral vascular disease.7-11
With the availability of prosthetic heart valves, SAVR has become the procedure of choice for AS.17
Clinical benefits of SAVR include:23,24
- Survival benefit for patients with symptomatic severe AS
- Estimated 3.5-fold reduction of all-cause mortality in asymptomatic, hemodynamically significant AS compared to watchful waiting
- Symptom relief
- Improvement of LV function
Isolated SAVR is associated with an in-hospital mortality of approximately 2.5% and operative mortality may vary between 3% for low-risk patients (STS-PROM <4%) to 13% for high-risk patients (STS-PROM >8%).25-31*
*STS-PROM=Society of Thoracic Surgeons predicted risk of mortality
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