Shinichi Shirai, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Takeshi Morimoto, Kenji Ando, Kengo Korai, Kenji Minakata, Michiya Hanyu, Fumio Yamazaki, Tadaaki Koyama, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Norio Kanamori, Koichiro Murata, Takeshi Kitai, Yuichi Kawase, Chisato Izumi, Tsukasa Inada, Eri Minamino-Muta, Takao Kato, Moriaki Inoko, Katsuhisa Ishii, Naritatsu Saito, Kazuo Yamanaka, Noboru Nishiwaki, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Toshihiko Saga, Shogo Nakayama, Genichi Sakaguchi, Atsushi Iwakura, Kotaro Shiraga, Koji Ueyama, Keiichi Fujiwara, Senri Miwa, Junichiro Nishizawa, Mitsuru Kitano, Hitoshi Kitayama, Ryuzo Sakata, Takeshi Kimura
BACKGROUND: There is discordance regarding the effect of symptom status before aortic valve replacement (AVR) on long-term outcome after AVR in severe aortic stenosis (AS).Methods and Results:The CURRENT AS registry is a multicenter retrospective registry enrolling 3,815 consecutive patients with severe AS. Among 1,196 patients managed with the initial AVR strategy, long-term clinical outcomes were compared between the symptomatic patients (n=905), and asymptomatic patients (n=291)...
March 24, 2017: Circulation Journal: Official Journal of the Japanese Circulation Society