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Original title: Incidence and clinical impact of infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Reference: Manuel Martínez-Sellés et al. EuroIntervention 2015;10-online publish-ahead-of-print February 2015. Prosthesis endocarditis is a complication with serious clinical consequences due to its high morbimortality. Infective endocarditis (IE) in TAVI has been described in few cases and, in cohort studies, it occurs within 0 to...
Original title: Impact of chronic kidney disease on the outcome of transcatheter aortic valve implantation: results from the FRANCE 2 Registry. Reference: Atsushi Oguri, et al. EuroIntervention 2015;10:e1-9 Globally, 13% of patients present kidney failure, which has been associated to a worse evolution not only of TAVI outcomes but also of other cardiovascular intervention outcomes. Most studies, including...
Original title: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease. Reference: Darren Mylotte, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol 2014;64:2330-9 The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is present between 0.5% and 2% of the general population and up to 20% of patients older than 80 years who require aortic valve surgery. Literature on transcatheter aortic valve...
Original title: Clinical outcomes and safety of transfemoral aortic valve implantation under general versus local anesthesia: subanalysis of the French Aortic National CoreValve and Edwards 2 registry. Reference: Oguri A et al. CircCardiovascInterv. 2014; 7:602-610. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI) performed under local anesthesia is becoming an increasingly common procedure. This study compared clinical outcomes in patients...
Original title: Impact of coronary artery disease on left ventricular ejection fraction recovery following transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Reference: Freixa X et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2014;Epub ahead of print. This single center study analyzed data form 56 consecutive patients with severe aortic stenosis and LVEF of ≤ 50% undergoing TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) between March 2006...
Original title: Predictive factors of early mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: individual risk assessment using a simple escore. Reference: Heart. 2014 Apr 16. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-305314. Epub ahead of print. The decision to perform an intervention in symptomatic aortic stenosis must balance surgery or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) risk. Factors associated with early mortality after TAVI...
Original title: The impact of live transmition on patients outcomes during transcatheter aortic valve replacement: Results fron the VERITAS study. Reference: Ron Waskman, et al. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine 2014;15:63-68 With the advancement of medical technology and the great development of telecommunications, performing live or edited cases has become a common occurrence in medical education, but one of...
Original title: Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Prosthesis. Reference: David H. Adams et al. N Engl J Med. 2014 Mar 29. [Epub ahead of print]. Transcatheter Aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with balloon expandable valve showed survival improvement in inoperable patients and was similar to surgery inoperable high-risk patients. An alternative to the above device is the self-expandable...