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How many people have been victims of this disease? Does treatment lower the death rate of patients who suffer from Aortic Stenosis? Aortic Stenosis is an extremely personal and at times unexpected heart disease. To be honest, there is a varying amount of total fatalities each year because of the unanticipated number of deaths. I have accumulated a study that show that treatment lowers the death rate of Aortic Stenosis, and one that conveys that treatment is not really a sigh of relief to patients. The first study conducted was in New England. They tested three-hundred and fifty eight patients with Aortic Stenosis. Half of the patients were treated with a new valve process, and the other half was just treated with a valve-widening process. One year after the treatments, the fatality rate for the people treated with the new valve process was 30.7%, whereas the people who were not treated with it had a death rate of 50.7%. The study showed that patients that were properly treated lowered the death rate of all sufferers of Aortic Stenosis. (SSSST) The second study shows that there is a 3-5% mortality rate for people that treated Aortic Stenosis. Evidently, there is only a five year prognosis for 85% of patients after being treated with and aortic valve replacement. As a result of the replacement, many problems such as bleeding complications occur; this can result in fatality. After reading this article, it is correct that even having Aortic Stenosis treated does not necessarily lower the death rate, since there are so many complications associated with the prosthesis. (Surgery) There is also a picture that shows a comparison between a regular heart and a heart affected by Aortic Stenosis. In the picture, the heart affected with this disease has a lot of factors that put stress on it (i.e. extra tissue and a severely narrowed passageway) which puts the patient at risk and could account for the victims of this disease that were not treated. (SSSST)

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2. Spiegel, Kevin M. "Morbidity/Mortality." Surgery.com. 24 Nov. 2009. Web. 28 Mar. 2011.

3. "Experts Develop New Aortic Stenosis Treatment | SSSST.Com World News."SSSST.Com World News | Source of Latest and Breaking News around the World. SSSST.Com World News, 23 Sept. 2010. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.