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Valvular Aortic Valve

Prosthesis-Annular Size Ratio and Its Impact on Leaks

In low-risk patients, there was a very low incidence of greater than moderate leak, including in patients...

Ten Commandments for 2021 Guidelines on Valvular Heart Disease

Since the latest version to the Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology, plenty...

AHA 2021 | AVATAR: Early Intervention in Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis

Early surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in patients with severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis can be beneficial in...

TAVR vs Sutureless Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients

Sutureless surgical aortic valve replacement (SU-SAVR) has been designed to make surgical valve replacement easier and faster,...

TCT 2021 | SURTAVI: Good News for the Self-Expandable Valve at 5 Years

After a 5-year followup, the transcatheter aortic replacement (TAVR) with the self-expandable valve has offered clinical outcomes...

Is Troponin Elevation After TAVR Related to Mortality?

Troponins have long had diagnostic value not only for infarction. Their ability to predict mortality is well...

Fluoroscopy vs. Ultrasound Guided Femoral Access in TAVR

Ideally, we will not puncture the femoral artery blindly if we are planning to use a big...

Device Evolution Also Impacts on Valve in Valve

TAVR to treat dysfunctional biological prosthetics (ViV) with the last generation self-expandable supra-annular prosthetic offers excellent results...