title: Contemporary management of aortic stenosis: surgical aortic valve replacement remains the gold standard.
abstract: Aortic valve disease is the most frequent acquired heart valve lesion in humans. In western communities, approximately 90% of patients present with aortic stenosis (AS), predominantly of a calcific degenerative aetiology. The remaining approximately 10% of patients predominantly present with aortic valve incompetence.
authors.affiliation: Department Cardiac Surgery, Kerckhoff Heartcenter, Benekestrasse 2-8, Bad Nauheim 61231, Germany. t.walther@kerckhoff-klinik.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blumenstein
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Linden
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kempfert
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome