Aortic stenosis significantly worsens long-term outcomes in heart failure patients, highlighting treatment gaps and the need for earlier intervention strategies.
Does the presence of aortic stenosis worsen long-term outcomes and mortality risk in patients across the heart failure spectrum?
Aortic stenosis, even when non-severe, is associated with high mortality across all heart failure subtypes, highlighting a critical treatment gap and the need for trials on earlier intervention.
AS is common in HF and is associated with substantially worse long-term outcomes across all HF subtypes, even at non-severe stages. The high mortality risk and frequent lack of intervention highlight major treatment gaps and underscore the need for prospective trials evaluating earlier intervention strategies.
Heitzinger et al. (2026) studied this question. Aortic stenosis significantly worsens long-term outcomes in heart failure patients, highlighting treatment gaps and the need for earlier intervention strategies.