TY - JOUR T1 - Contemporary management of aortic stenosis: surgical aortic valve replacement remains the gold standard JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - iv23 LP - iv29 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302399 VL - 98 IS - Suppl 4 AU - Thomas Walther AU - Johannes Blumenstein AU - Arnaud van Linden AU - Jörg Kempfert Y1 - 2012/11/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/98/Suppl_4/iv23.abstract N2 - Aortic valve disease is the most frequent acquired heart valve lesion in humans. In western communities, approximately 90% of patients present with aortic stenosis (AS), predominantly of a calcific degenerative aetiology. The remaining approximately 10% of patients predominantly present with aortic valve incompetence. ER -