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Low Risk Patients: TAVR with Self-Expanding Valves Offers Similar Outcomes to Surgery Based on a Bayesian Analysis?

When compared against surgical valve replacement (SAVR) transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has shown benefits across different...

Are Self-Expandable Valves a Valid Option in Bicuspids?

Bicuspid Aortic Valves (VAV) are challenging for TAVR given its anatomical characteristics and the important presence of...

Are Expandable-Balloon Valves an Option for the Bicuspid Valve in Low-Risk Patients?

Bicuspid aortic valve malformation is the most frequent cardiac malformation (about 1%), and a significant percentage of...

Is Cusp Overlapping Projection the New Self-Expandable Valve Implantation Technique?

In Europe and the US, aortic stenosis is the most frequent cause of valve intervention, both surgical...

MitraClip Failure: What Should We Do?

Currently, edge-to-edge therapy with MitraClip has demonstrated efficacy and safety for the treatment of patients with degenerative...

Infective Endocarditis in TAVR: What’s the Best Treatment?

Infective Endocarditis (IE) rate after TAVR ranges from 0.7% to 3.4%, depending on the different analyses, and...

Melody: One of the Pioneers in Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement with Long Term Outcomes

At 10 years of the Melody Investigational Device Exemption we can observe this device for transcatheter pulmonary...

HYDRA CE | New Models for TAVR Development

The Hydra CE has shown favorable one year efficacy for the new transcatheter aortic valve model, with...