The presbycardia phenotype: Cardiac remodeling and valvular degeneration in nonagenarians.
Aline IskandarSamer MowakeaaMayank SardanaTimothy P FitzgibbonsDennis A TigheMatthew W ParkerNikolaos KakourosDavid McManusGerard P AurigemmaPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)
Herein, we provide the first comprehensive echocardiographic description of 'presbycardia'; concentric LVH, asymmetric septal hypertrophy, mitral and aortic valve calcification, and increased epicardial fat thickness. This pattern of findings may be increasingly seen as the population ages.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- left ventricular
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- left atrial
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- aortic valve replacement
- adipose tissue
- optical coherence tomography
- heart failure
- chronic kidney disease
- atrial fibrillation
- ejection fraction
- pulmonary hypertension
- fatty acid
- solid state