Intervention for critical aortic stenosis in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
APRIL 24, 2024
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is an ultra-rare genetic premature aging disease that is historically fatal in teenage years, secondary to severe accelerated atherosclerosis. With this longer lifespan, calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was identified as an emerging critical risk factor for cardiac death in older patients.
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