Li-Tan Yang, Chien-Chang Lee, Chin-Hua Su, Masashi Amano, Yosuke Nabeshima, Tetsuji Kitano, Chieh-Mei Tsai, Chung-Lieh Hung, Yuriko Nakaoku, Kunihiro Nishimura, Soshiro Ogata, Hao-Yun Lo, Ron-Bin Hsu, Yih-Sharng Chen, Wen-Jone Chen, Rekha Mankad, Patricia A Pellikka, Yi-Lwun Ho, Masaaki Takeuchi, Chisato Izumi
IMPORTANCE: Chronic hemodynamically significant aortic regurgitation (AR) is associated with excess risk of death, yet data for Asian patients are lacking, and whether Asian patients can abide by Western guidelines as to when aortic valve surgery should be performed is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess AR presentation and cutoffs of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), LV end-systolic dimension index (LVESDi), and LV end-systolic volume index (LVESVi) that are associated with risk of death in Asian patients with AR...
March 1, 2023: JAMA Network Open