Rapid-deployment surgically implanted valves are designed to make a surgeons’ job faster and easier, compared with conventional bioprostheses, which require several stitches. These valves, which shorten surgical times, could compete with transcatheter-implanted valves (transcatheter aortic valve replacement, TAVR). The German Aortic Valve Registry analyzed 16,473 patients who underwent surgical aortic valve replacement with either a current-generation…