Healio

Choice between self-expanding, balloon-expandable TAVR valve multifaceted decision

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During the past decade, the options for practitioners of transcatheter aortic valve replacement have expanded on ...
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In women with small aortic annuli, TAVR with self-expanding valve has better hemodynamics

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In women with small aortic annuli who underwent TAVR, a self-expanding valve conferred better 1-year hemodynamic ...
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Self-expanding valve outperforms balloon-expandable valve for TAVR in patients with small valve annulus

People with a small aortic annulus, a part of the heart’s anatomy where the left ventricle meets the aorta, who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a supra-annular ...
TCTMD

Coronary Access More Challenging With Self-Expanding Valves: SCAAR/SWENTRY

PARIS, France—Fluoroscopy times and the amount of contrast needed during coronary angiography are significantly higher in patients with a prior TAVI, with the self-expanding transcatheter heart valves ...
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SMART trial reaffirms hemodynamic superiority of TAVR self-expanding valve

Additional analysis from the SMall Annuli Randomized To Evolut or SAPIEN (SMART) study demonstrated clinical non-inferiority of self-expanding valves (SEV) versus balloon-expandable valves (BEV) in ...