The medically managed patient with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis in the TAVR era: Patient characteristics, reasons for medical management, and quality of shared decision making at heart valve treatment centers.

The medically managed patient with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis in the TAVR era: Patient characteristics, reasons for medical management, and quality of shared decision making at heart valve treatment centers.

Little is known about patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) who receive medical management despite evaluation at a heart valve treatment center.We identified patient characteristics associated with medical management, physician-reported reasons for selecting medical management, and p...

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Main Authors: Kumar Dharmarajan, Jill Foster, Megan Coylewright, Philip Green, John P Vavalle, Osman Faheem, Pei-Hsiu Huang, Amar Krishnaswamy, Vinod H Thourani, Lisa A McCoy, Tracy Y Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5400246?pdf=render

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