Prevalencia de estenosis valvular aórtica en pacientes atendidos por el servicio de cardiología en el Hospital Clínica Alcívar en el periodo de enero de 2018 - diciembre de 2020.

Abstract

Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most frequent cardiac pathology in developed countries. This valve disease is especially evident in older adult patients, it is accompanied by a poor prognosis when symptoms appear. The main objective of our work was to determine the prevalence of this valve disease in the Alcívar hospital in the period between 2018 and 2020, being a retrospective, analytical study, of non-experimental design, the 91 patients who were diagnosed with heart disease were taken as a universe. aortic valve stenosis in the mentioned period, which shows us a prevalence of 1.7% of this valve involvement, of which most were understood from 60 years (34%) and belonged to the male gender (58% ), the main symptoms presented were angina, dyspnea, dizziness and syncope. Being able to increase over time, due to the increase in life expectancy of the world population.