Results after 10 years of a policy of initial CABG+AVR for mild and moderate aortic stenosis
| Severe CAD and mild AS: 100 patients | Severe CAD and moderate AS: 100 patients | |
| • To eliminate: | ||
| – late AVR | 9 | 466-150 |
| – deaths from late AVR | 2 | 7 |
| • Results in | ||
| – unnecessary AVR | 91 | 54 |
| – excess deaths | 29 | 24 |
↵6-150 An overestimate—see text.
AS, aortic stenosis; CAD, coronary artery disease.