Volume 114, Nº 2, February 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20190016
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Treatment of Aortic Stenosis in Elderly Individuals in Brazil: How Long Can We Wait?
Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes
Bruno Ramos Nascimento
Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
Figure 1 – Absolute prevalence of Non-rheumatic calcific aortic valve disease in Brazil from 1990 to 2017 (Global Burden of Disease 2017).
Keywords: Life Expectancy; Aging; Aged; Stenosis Valve Aortic/surgery; Heart Valve Prosthesis; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement/trends.