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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.