| 21. | Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis carries a poor prognosis.
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| 22. | This condition is often undiagnosed until later in life when the person develops symptomatic aortic stenosis.
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| 23. | Supravalvular aortic stenosis is associated with genetic damage at the Elastin gene locus on chromosome 7q11.23.
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| 24. | All suffer from a heart defect called supravalvular aortic stenosis, or SVAS, in varying degrees of severity.
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| 25. | It can also become necessary for the treatment of aortic aneurysm, less frequently for congenital aortic stenosis.
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| 26. | "' Heyde's syndrome "'is a syndrome of gastrointestinal bleeding from angiodysplasia in the presence of aortic stenosis.
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| 27. | Initially, the researchers were disappointed : Patients'cholesterol levels had no bearing on how quickly their aortic stenosis worsened.
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| 28. | These compensatory changes, termed " concentric hypertrophy, " reduce the increase in wall tension observed in aortic stenosis.
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| 29. | Patients with severe aortic stenosis have a narrowed aortic valve that does not allow blood to flow efficiently.
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| 30. | Rare causes of aortic stenosis include Fabry disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, high blood uric acid levels, and infection.
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