‘If you’ve lost your personality, there’s no point in changing the valve’—a qualitative study of older adults’ attitudes towards treatment of aortic stenosis with comorbid dementia

Objectives Due to prognostic uncertainty and limited decision-making capacity, the choice to perform transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and comorbid dementia is challenging. This study explores older adults’ perspectives on complex decision-ma...

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Main Authors: Thomas Jackson, Margrethe Aase Schaufel, Øyvind Bleie, Siri Rostoft, Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft, Elisabeth Skaar, Erik Packer, Anja Øksnes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2024-11-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/11/e086674.full
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