Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: first results from a multi-centre real-world registry

Zahn, Ralf; Gerckens, Ulrich; Grube, E.; Linke, Axel; Sievert, H.; Eggebrecht, Holger; Hambrecht, Rainer; Sack, S.; Hauptmann, Karl-Eugen; Richardt, Gert; R. Figulla, H.; Senges, Jochen; behalf of the German Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions--Registry Investigators, on

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq339

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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: first results from a multi-centre real-world registry

Published in European Heart Journal • Sep 23, 2010

Authors:

Ralf Zahn

Ulrich Gerckens

E. Grube

Abstract

AIMS: Treatment of elderly symptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis and co-morbidities is challenging. Transcatheter aortic valve interventions [balloon valvuloplasty and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)] are evolving as alternative treatment options to surgical valve replaceme...

Subject

Medicine

Aortic valvuloplasty

Stenosis

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