The diagnosed severity of aortic stenosis strongly correlates with clinical outcomes, new Kaiser Permanente research shows.
Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc.Sep 5 2023 But the study also suggests that fine-tuning physician assessment of those patients with moderate aortic stenosis could help improve outcomes and better determine which patients might benefit from surgery.
Moderate aortic stenosis represents a wide spectrum of disease. Despite controversy in the field about the prognosis for these patients, our results show that moderate aortic stenosis patients have a different trajectory than those with severe aortic stenosis, and that they can be safely followed with close surveillance."
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