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Why is it important?
While substantial patients after open heart surgery live long, this hemodynamics is still not well recognized, therefore, the appropriate timing of intervention is often left behind. By understanding this hemodynamics, one can be able to appropriately intervene in the right moment.
Perspectives
Re-do surgery for elderly patients is often challenging due to various comorbidities and therefore could be potentially treated by transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
Dr Yohei Ohno
Tokai University School of Medicine
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This page is a summary of: Uncommon cause of paradoxical low-flow low-gradient severe aortic stenosis: easy to underestimate, difficult to diagnose, European Heart Journal, February 2016, European Society of Cardiology,
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw042.
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