This article discusses end-stage aortic stenosis facts, symptoms, treatment, prognosis, and advance care planning.
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Aortic stenosis can becongenital, meaning you’re born with the condition.
However, it most commonly occurs from calcium buildup or scarring in the aortic valve due to age.
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The four-year survival rate in patients over 70 years old with severe aortic stenosis without symptoms is 16%.
About one-fourth of patients with severe aortic stenosis don’t have anysymptoms.
Severe aortic stenosis can occur without symptoms for years.
Symptoms of aortic stenosis often don’t occur until there is severe damage to the heart valve.
With TAVR, a new valve is placed inside the diseased valve through a catheter.
At the time of diagnosis of end-stage aortic stenosis,advance care planningand palliative care should be discussed.
Advance care planning should be discussed to benefit the patient and caregivers when end-stage aortic stenosis is diagnosed.
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