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nephrology and pulmonology&#46; Personally&#44; as a general cardiologist referring such patients&#44; I would also like the attending physician to be involved&#44; to be informed of the medical-surgical evaluation and when there is a close physician-patient relationship&#44; to play a part in the final decision&#46; However&#44; I am well aware that heart teams are difficult to implement in practice due to problems in bringing together everyone who should be involved&#46; But efforts should be made to achieve this goal&#44; because current candidates for TAVI are particularly complex and only later&#44; as the technique develops and is extended to less complex patients as an alternative to conventional surgery&#44; will it be possible to reduce the size of the heart team&#46; Naturally&#44; the decision process should be adapted to each institution and to each patient&#44; who should always have the final word&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">These brief reflections on medical and surgical cardiology in the context of current treatment of severe aortic stenosis were prompted by the article by Pereira et al&#46; 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p&#61;0&#46;027&#41;&#46; Other points worthy of mention are that only one patient suffered stroke in the immediate post-operative period and none during one-year follow-up&#44; and that 11 patients required a pacemaker in the post-operative period&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Although the authors mention no limitations to their study&#44; it would have been interesting to know how many patients were considered for surgical and&#47;or percutaneous treatment in 2009&#44; how many were unsuitable for surgery &#40;and possibly both treatments&#41;&#44; how many underwent urgent surgery&#44; the type of prosthesis employed &#40;mechanical or biological&#41;&#44; why eight patients were reoperated in the immediate postoperative period and three during one-year follow-up&#44; and the medication prescribed during follow-up&#44; among other things&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Apart from the excellent operative results presented&#44; which we hope will be maintained&#44; the article warrants a few other comments&#46; Assuming that there had been no changes in the surgical team or logistics of the surgical center&#44; the improved results may not be due solely to greater operator experience over the four-year period&#44; or to mere chance in that particular year&#46; The authors acknowledge that the results are related to &#8220;marked improvements in the care provided and to advances in medical and surgical technologies and in complementary exams&#8221;&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In my opinion&#44; the study and its results reflect closer collaboration between medical and surgical cardiology in both patient assessment and referral for the most appropriate treatment&#46; The introduction and growing availability of an alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement that is less aggressive and more suitable for older patients with more comorbidities&#44; who are more likely to be considered unsuitable or high risk for surgery&#44; has undoubtedly increased the number of patients being referred&#46; This has resulted in greater responsibilities for the cardiology team throughout the process&#46; Patients undergo more thorough evaluation&#44; prompted by the demands of patient selection for a new alternative technique&#44; in accordance with international guidelines&#46; There are indirect benefits for surgeons and direct benefits for patients&#58; surgeons may benefit from patients being more thoroughly assessed and possibly at lower risk &#40;high-risk patients being referred for TAVI&#41;&#44; but it is patients who benefit the most&#46; Although only eight more patients were operated in 2009 &#40;with better results than previously&#41;&#44; a further 20 underwent TAVI that year&#44; according to Ministry of Health data &#40;not mentioned in the article&#41;&#44; which represents an overall increase of 27&#46;2&#37; in patients treated for severe aortic stenosis that year&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study highlights the central importance of the heart team in treatment decisions for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis&#44; 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Medical and surgical cardiology: Reflections on the current treatment of severe aortic stenosis
Cardiologia médico-cirúrgica: reflexões a propósito do tratamento atual da estenose aórtica grave
Ricardo Seabra-Gomes
Instituto do Coração, Carnaxide, Portugal
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    "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Until the recent development of transcatheter aortic valve implantation &#40;TAVI&#41;&#44; surgical valve replacement was the only possible treatment option for aortic stenosis&#46; The natural history of isolated&#44; non-rheumatic aortic stenosis was well known to cardiologists from descriptions in classic textbooks&#46; Diagnosis was based on clinical criteria &#40;typical auscultation&#41; and symptoms&#44; particularly exercise-related angina or syncope&#44; together with data from electrocardiography &#40;left ventricular hypertrophy with systolic overload&#41; and chest X-ray &#40;ascending aorta dilatation&#41;&#44; and the cardiologist would discuss the possible need for surgery&#44; usually elective&#44; with the patient&#46; Transthoracic echocardiography&#44; particularly with Doppler study&#44; improved quantification of the transvalvular gradient and valve area&#44; providing more accurate assessment of the severity of stenosis and enabling prospective analysis of changes in left ventricular function&#46; Surgery was indicated when symptoms affected quality of life and were accompanied by signs of worsening valve stenosis and&#47;or ventricular function&#46;</p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A cardiologist in a non-hospital environment could decide on the need for surgery&#44; but this involved various steps&#44; including&#58; &#40;1&#41; confirming that the symptoms were in fact attributable to aortic valve stenosis&#44; which often required coronary angiography to exclude the presence of or association with coronary artery disease in doubtful cases&#59; 2&#41; deciding on the appropriate timing of surgery and its objective &#8211; improved quality of life or longer survival&#59; 3&#41; assessing patients&#8217; and their families&#8217; attitude to surgical intervention&#44; explaining that it may only be palliative and not necessarily a definitive treatment&#59; 4&#41; assessing and controlling comorbidities in order to minimize surgical risk&#59; 5&#41; selecting the surgical center &#40;or surgeon&#41; to which to refer the patient&#59; and 6&#41; discussing the type of prosthesis &#40;mechanical or biological&#41; to be used and the implications&#44; taking account of the patient&#39;s preferences&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">However&#44; rather than the cardiologist acting as the intermediary between the patient and the surgeon or reference center&#44; most patients were referred to the cardiology department of a hospital with cardiac surgery for assessment of the severity of stenosis and the timing of surgery&#46; After various diagnostic exams and stratification of surgical risk&#44; the case was presented for medical and surgical evaluation and the patient was then informed of the decision&#44; at times without any formal contact between the cardiologist or surgeon and the patient&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In both these scenarios&#44; 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nephrology and pulmonology&#46; Personally&#44; as a general cardiologist referring such patients&#44; I would also like the attending physician to be involved&#44; to be informed of the medical-surgical evaluation and when there is a close physician-patient relationship&#44; to play a part in the final decision&#46; However&#44; I am well aware that heart teams are difficult to implement in practice due to problems in bringing together everyone who should be involved&#46; But efforts should be made to achieve this goal&#44; because current candidates for TAVI are particularly complex and only later&#44; as the technique develops and is extended to less complex patients as an alternative to conventional surgery&#44; will it be possible to reduce the size of the heart team&#46; Naturally&#44; the decision process should be adapted to each institution and to each patient&#44; who should always have the final word&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">These brief reflections on medical and surgical cardiology in the context of current treatment of severe aortic stenosis were prompted by the article by Pereira et al&#46; published in this issue of the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Journal</span>&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> The authors set out to assess the impact of a TAVI program&#44; introduced in their institution in 2007&#44; on the profile and operative results of surgical aortic valve replacement&#44; comparing patients operated in 2005 &#40;n&#61;103&#41; with those operated in 2009 &#40;n&#61;111&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Eight more patients were operated in 2009 than in 2005&#59; they were older &#40;71&#46;2 vs&#46; 69&#46;2 years&#41; and a greater proportion were aged &#8805;77 years &#40;42 or 37&#46;8&#37; vs&#46; 19 or 18&#46;4&#37;&#41;&#46; Comorbidities were also more frequent in those operated in 2009 &#40;52&#46;3&#37; vs&#46; 40&#46;8&#37;&#44; p&#61;0&#46;061&#41;&#44; including a higher percentage with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease &#40;19&#46;8&#37; vs&#46; 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p&#61;0&#46;027&#41;&#46; Other points worthy of mention are that only one patient suffered stroke in the immediate post-operative period and none during one-year follow-up&#44; and that 11 patients required a pacemaker in the post-operative period&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Although the authors mention no limitations to their study&#44; it would have been interesting to know how many patients were considered for surgical and&#47;or percutaneous treatment in 2009&#44; how many were unsuitable for surgery &#40;and possibly both treatments&#41;&#44; how many underwent urgent surgery&#44; the type of prosthesis employed &#40;mechanical or biological&#41;&#44; why eight patients were reoperated in the immediate postoperative period and three during one-year follow-up&#44; and the medication prescribed during follow-up&#44; among other things&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Apart from the excellent operative results presented&#44; which we hope will be maintained&#44; the article warrants a few other comments&#46; Assuming that there had been no changes in the surgical team or logistics of the surgical center&#44; the improved results may not be due solely to greater operator experience over the four-year period&#44; or to mere chance in that particular year&#46; The authors acknowledge that the results are related to &#8220;marked improvements in the care provided and to advances in medical and surgical technologies and in complementary exams&#8221;&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In my opinion&#44; the study and its results reflect closer collaboration between medical and surgical cardiology in both patient assessment and referral for the most appropriate treatment&#46; The introduction and growing availability of an alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement that is less aggressive and more suitable for older patients with more comorbidities&#44; who are more likely to be considered unsuitable or high risk for surgery&#44; has undoubtedly increased the number of patients being referred&#46; This has resulted in greater responsibilities for the cardiology team throughout the process&#46; Patients undergo more thorough evaluation&#44; prompted by the demands of patient selection for a new alternative technique&#44; in accordance with international guidelines&#46; There are indirect benefits for surgeons and direct benefits for patients&#58; surgeons may benefit from patients being more thoroughly assessed and possibly at lower risk &#40;high-risk patients being referred for TAVI&#41;&#44; but it is patients who benefit the most&#46; Although only eight more patients were operated in 2009 &#40;with better results than previously&#41;&#44; a further 20 underwent TAVI that year&#44; according to Ministry of Health data &#40;not mentioned in the article&#41;&#44; which represents an overall increase of 27&#46;2&#37; in patients treated for severe aortic stenosis that year&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study highlights the central importance of the heart team in treatment decisions for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis&#44; 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