01.12.2020 | editorial
Double trouble: severe aortic stenosis and cardiac amyloidosis
Erschienen in: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift | Ausgabe 23-24/2020
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Aortic stenosis (AS) as well as cardiac amyloidosis (CA) are prevalent conditions in old patients. The combination of both AS and CA has recently been identified to occur in a significant number of patients scheduled for aortic valve replacement. Age alone, however, does not fully explain the frequent overlap of the two pathologies as the prevalence of CA in individuals >80 years in the general population has been described to be <1% [1]. …Anzeige