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Cerebrovascular Disease Detected on Preprocedural Computed Tomography in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement.

Ko YamamotoHiroyuki UedaDaiji UchiyamaYasuaki TakejiTomohiko TaniguchiTakeshi MorimotoHiroyuki TabataKenichi IshizuToru MorofujiMasaomi HayashiAkihiro IsotaniShinichi ShiraiNobuhisa OhnoShinichi KakumotoKenji AndoKenji MinatoyaTakeshi Kimura
Published in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
Among patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing AVR, a substantial proportion had cerebrovascular disease on preprocedural CT, with a clinical history of symptomatic stroke in one-fourth of patients. Regardless of history of symptomatic stroke, patients with cerebrovascular disease on preprocedural CT had worse clinical outcomes compared with those without cerebrovascular disease on preprocedural CT.
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