Five-year Outcomes of Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement – A Single-center Experience from A Low- and Middle-income Country
Asra Wahid1, Asna Sulaiman1, Osman Faheem1, Hasanat Sharif1 1Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan Background:A great burden of aortic valve disease falls on rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in low- and middle-income countries compared to the degenerative pathologies of the West. Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) has been the standard of care for past five decades…