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Survival Benefit of Aortic Valve Replacement in Older Patients With Asymptomatic Chronic Severe Aortic Regurgitation  Rami Turk, MD, Padmini Varadarajan,

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1 Survival Benefit of Aortic Valve Replacement in Older Patients With Asymptomatic Chronic Severe Aortic Regurgitation  Rami Turk, MD, Padmini Varadarajan, MD, Ashvin Kamath, BA, Unnati Sampat, MD, Sumit Khandhar, DO, Reena Patel, MD, Ramdas G. Pai, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages (March 2010) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curve with and without aortic valve replacement (AVR) in all asymptomatic severe aortic regurgitation (AR) patients. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier survival curve with and without aortic valve replacement (AVR) in all asymptomatic severe aortic regurgitation (AR) patients with left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction greater than 50%, LV end-diastolic dimension (LVEDD) less than 70 mm, and LV end-systolic dimension (LVESD) less than 50 mm. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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