Population
196 subjects ≥65 years of age undergoing open surgical aortic valve replacement for calcific aortic…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
in-hospital
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Elevated stroke rates after surgical AVR warrant caution in older adults; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Clinical and silent strokes after open surgical AVR in older adults are highly prevalent and occur at more than double the rate historically reported in surgical databases.
Messé et al. (2014) studied this question.
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