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Valvular Aortic Valve

Balloon-Expandable vs. Self-Expanding: To Each Valve Its Own Annulus

The former generation of valves, the balloon expandable (Sapien XT), was associated to less paravalvular leak than...

Is TAVR at Hospitals Without Backup Cardiovascular Surgery Feasible?

Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) at hospitals without cardiovascular surgery available are at significantly higher...

Aortic Stenosis and Dialysis: Is TAVR the Strategy of Choice?

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. TAVR has been shown beneficial in high and moderate risk patients, but there...

CoreValve US Pivotal High Risk Trial: at 5 years, similar results

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. We are well aware of transcatheter aortic valve replacement’s (TAVR) effect in high-risk...

Surprises in the Physiopathology of Critical Ischemia

Luminal thrombotic occlusions associated with non-significant atherosclerosis are commonly observed in patients with critical lower limb ischemia,...

Differences in Stroke between TAVR and SAVR in Intermediate Risk Patients

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is more and more frequent in lower risk populations that had previously...

TAVR in Low-Risk Patients with “Zero” Mortality and “Zero” Stroke

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is now the standard of care for patients with symptomatic severe aortic...

How to predict post TAVR quality of life in “real world” patients

Despite the benefit for most patients, a small number of patients still show poor outcomes after transcatheter...