SYNCOPE IN AORTIC VALVULAR STENOSIS

@article{Richards1984SYNCOPEIA,
  title={SYNCOPE IN AORTIC VALVULAR STENOSIS},
  author={Arthur Mark Richards and Hamid Ikram and Michael Gary Nicholls and E. J. Hamilton and RosemaryD. Richards},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={1984},
  volume={324},
  pages={1113-1116}
}
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Syncope in aortic stenosis during continuous electrocardiographic monitoring--a case report.
TLDR
Rather than arrhythmia, other mechanisms, such as an inhibitory reflex from left ventricular receptors, should be postulated as the cause of syncope in patients with severe aortic stenosis.
Simulation of Exercise-Induced Syncope in a Heart Model with Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis
TLDR
A lumped-parameter computer simulation based on equivalent electronic circuits that reflect the hemodynamic conditions of a heart with severe AVS and a concomitantly decreased contractility as a long-term detrimental consequence of compensatory left ventricular hypertrophy showed consistency with published case reports of exertional syncope in patients with AVS.
Effect of aortic valve replacement on syncope in patients with aortic stenosis.
TLDR
When patients with aortic stenosis experience syncope unrelated to exertion, the symptom is usually unrelated to the valve disease and another cause should be sought.
Ventricular arrhythmias in adult aortic stenosis: prevalence, mechanisms, and clinical relevance.
TLDR
The prevalence, the electrophysiologic mechanisms, and the possible role of ventricular arrhythmias in the development of symptoms and in the outcome of adult subjects with aortic stenosis are analyzed.
Exercise‐induced syncope and holter‐documented asystole in an endurance runner with moderate aortic stenosis
TLDR
The case of an endurance runner with moderate aortic stenosis, who had recurrent syncope, was reported and the patient was given a beta‐adrenergic blocker, and a pacemaker was implanted because of the profound cardio‐inhibi‐tory response.
Valvular aortic stenosis. A clinical and hemodynamic profile of patients.
TLDR
Clinical and hemodynamic findings in 397 patients with valvular aortic stenosis at their first hemodynamic evaluation were retrospectively reviewed, identifying two categories of symptoms: angina and syncope, which develop during a fully compensated stage of aorta stenosis ("prefailure symptoms") and dyspnea or congestive failure, which signifies various degrees of left ventricular malfunction.
Assessment and management of aortic valve disease in patients with left ventricular dysfunction
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Aortic valve surgery improves myocardial performance by relief of ventricular afterload in both patients with severe stenosis and those with severe regurgitation regardless of the degree of left ventricular dysfunction.
Valvuloarterial Impedance, But Not Aortic Stenosis Severity, Predicts Syncope in Patients With Aortic Stenosis
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This study suggests that high Zva, but not conventional parameters of AS, identifies AS patients with an increased risk of syncope, and only Zva was an independent predictor ofsyncope in patients with AS.
Syncope: The Underestimated Threat in Severe Aortic Stenosis.
Pathophysiology of valvular aortic stenosis in the elderly.
  • M. Cheitlin
  • Medicine
    The American journal of geriatric cardiology
  • 2003
TLDR
It is unlikely that any truly asymptomatic patient over age 80, even with severe aortic stenosis, should be sent to surgery, and prolongation of life for any meaningful length of time is not as important as relief of symptoms and improvement in the quality of life.
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