TY  - CHAP
AU  - Masanori Hirota
AU  - Joji Hoshino
AU  - Yasuhisa Fukada
AU  - Shintaro Katahira
AU  - Taichi Kondo
AU  - Kenichi Muramatsu
AU  - Tadashi Isomura
ED  - Masanori Hirota
Y1  - 2011-10-10
PY  - 2011
T1  - Technical Modifications for Patients with Aortic Stenosis and Calcified Ascending Aorta During Aortic Valve Replacement
N2  - Currently, aortic stenosis (AS) is the most prevalent valvular disease in developed countries. Pathological and molecular mechanisms of AS have been investigated in many aspects. And new therapeutic devices such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation have been developed as a less invasive treatment for high-risk patients. Due to advanced prevalent age of AS, further discovery and technology are required to treat elderly patients for longer life expectancy. This book is an effort to present an up-to-date account of existing knowledge, involving recent development in this field. Various opinion leaders described details of established knowledge or newly recognized advances associated with diagnosis, treatment and mechanism. Thus, this book will enable close intercommunication to another field and collaboration technology for new devices. We hope that it will be an important source, not only for clinicians, but also for general practitioners, contributing to development of better therapeutic adjuncts in the future.
BT  - Aortic Stenosis
SP  - Ch. 8
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/20806
DO  - 10.5772/20806
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-25
ER  -