Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2021; 116(3): 483-484
Arterial Stiffness in Aortic Stenosis
This Short Editorial is referred by the Research article "Arterial Stiffness Changes in Severe Aortic Stenosis Patients Submitted to Valve Replacement Surgery".
The paper “Arterial Stiffness Changes in Severe Aortic Stenosis Patients Submitted to Valve Replacement Surgery” has important information on the behavior of arterial stiffness before and after aortic valve replacement.
They studied 150 patients with severe aortic stenosis submitted to aortic valve replacement with bioprosthesis. They used a noninvasive method, carotid-femoral pressure wave velocity (PWV) measured through Complior Analyse, to study arterial stiffness. Other methods could have been used, such as invasive pressure catheter measurements, MRI and peripheral cuff sensors, but PWV is the gold standard.
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