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Severe autonomic failure as a predictor of mortality in aortic valve stenosis.
Int J Cardiol
October 2014
Abteilung Innere Medizin III, Department of Cardiology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Munich University Clinic, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany and DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research). Electronic address:
Background: Identification of new risk markers in aortic valve stenosis (AS) is of great interest. Here, we hypothesized that the presence of severe autonomic failure (SAF) is an important prognostic marker in both, symptomatic patients undergoing invasive treatment for severe AS, and in asymptomatic patients with severe AS who were primarily treated conservatively.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled 300 patients with severe AS (aortic valve area<1.