Double trouble: severe aortic stenosis and cardiac amyloidosis

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Wien Klin Wochenschr (2020) 132:705–707 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-020-01787-7

Double trouble: severe aortic stenosis and cardiac amyloidosis Christian Nitsche · Julia Mascherbauer

© Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020

Aortic stenosis (AS) as well as cardiac amyloidosis (CA) are prevalent conditions in old patients. The combination of both AS and CA has recently been identified to occur in a significant number of patients scheduled for aortic valve replacement. Age alone, however, does not fully explain the frequent overlap of the two pathologies as the prevalence of CA in individuals >80 years in the general population has been described to be