Quality of care assessment and improvement in aortic stenosis - rationale and design of a multicentre registry (IMPULSE)

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• 作者：Norbert Frey ; Richard P. Steeds ; Antonio Serra…
• 关键词：Quality of care ; Aortic stenosis ; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation ; Surgical aortic valve replacement ; Facilitated data relay
• 刊名：BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：467KB
• 刊物主题：Cardiology; Cardiac Surgery; Angiology; Blood Transfusion Medicine; Internal Medicine; Medicine/Public Health, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2261
• 卷排序：17

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BackgroundSevere aortic stenosis (AS) is a common, serious valve disease in which no effective medical therapy is available and, if not treated by intervention, has a 5-year survival of only 40–60%. Despite the availability of guidelines supporting the effective use of surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to treat the majority of these patients, adherence to these guidelines in clinical practice is still unsatisfactory. Several recent studies have emphasised the necessity for improved communication between multidisciplinary teams, with the aim to ensure that severe AS patients receive appropriate treatment.