cause diastolic dysfunction, adverse intramyocardial fibrosis, and even systolic dysfunction in a certain number of them, leading to heart failure. 1,3 Relief of LV pressure overload, either with surgical aortic valve replacement or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), leads to substantial LV mass regression, which might be associated with clinical C hronic left ventricular (LV) pressure overload due to severe aortic stenosis (AS) leads to cardiac remodeling, of which LV hypertrophy (LVH) is the most important structural alteration. 1,2 Initially, LVH was thought to be a compensatory or adaptive process to maintain cardiac output in the face of elevated afterload by decreasing LV systolic wall stress according to the law of Laplace. However, in some patients, probably when the LV mass exceeds a certain threshold, maladaptive LVH may Article p ????The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the Japanese Circulation Society.