The Authors’ reply We learn the response letter to our paper ‘Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in aortic regurgitation and its affect in outcomes’1 which raised a number of attention-grabbing factors.
In response, it is very important query among the assumptions on this letter, significantly regarding the assertion that ‘clinically important AR is a illness largely affecting youthful males’. The reference to help this assertion introduces a serious choice bias; first, this was a single-centre retrospective research from the Mayo Clinic, together with solely sufferers present process surgical procedure for aortic regurgitation (AR).2 Over 40% had bicuspid aortic valves. That is clearly a really skewed pattern. References 4 and 5 of the letter, additionally about AR epidemiology, …