[Identification of high risk patients with severe, but asymptomatic aortic stenosis].
Whether asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis benefit from surgery remains unclear. We report our data recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the natural history of this disease and predictors of outcome.
Klinische Abteilung für Kardiologie, Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin II, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien. Raphael.Rosenhek@univie.ac.at
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