Severe Aortic Stenosis in Patients Referred for Valve Surgery (SAS)

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Valvular Heart Disease; Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis; Aortic Stenosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01794832

SAS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our main hypothesis on the present study is that new parameters such as risk-taking behavior, patients motivation, health related quality of life, new biomarkers and more precise echocardiography measures in addition to traditional parameters will improve pre-operative risk assessment in patients with AS and better guide patients and doctors in decision whether to operate or not.

Full description

Patients referred for surgery are included thorough reading referral letter. Data collected in the study wil be compared with data from Medical records and clinical examination.

Data entered will be controlled by two investigators.

Data wil be compared to national norms and from result of other studies.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients above 18 years with symptomatic AS referred to preoperative examination.

Exclusion criteria

• Exclusion: Patients who do not want to participate. Patients not able to speak and read Norwegian.

Trial design

500 participants in 1 patient group

Elderly with severe aortic stenosis

Description:

Patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis referred for consideration of surgical aortic valve replacement