Critical Insight
Need for Early Detection of Aortic Stenosis
The survival rate plummets for AS patients with the onset of severe symptoms.
Delayed detection and intervention leads to…
- 50%higher mortality when TAVR is delayed**
- 59%higher heart-failure hospitalization risk
- Irreversible cardiac remodeling
Valvular aortic stenosis in adults.
Average course (postmortem data).*
*Dr. Eugene Braunwald: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.033408
**Dr. Sreekanth Vemulapalli: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2474870625003343