Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has transformed the management of severe aortic stenosis (AS), evolving from a therapy reserved for inoperable patients to a viable treatment across the spectrum of surgical risk. This success has stimul...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become the leading technique for aortic valve replacement in symptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis with conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) now limited to patients younge...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has revolutionised the management of aortic valve disease, offering a less invasive alternative to traditional surgical valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis (AS). TAVI for pure aortic regurgitati...
Transcatheter heart valve (THV) embolization is a rare complication of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) generally caused by malpositioning, sizing inaccuracies and pacing failures. The consequences are related to the site of embolizatio...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to treat patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis is a well-established procedure. Even though cases series have reported TAVI use in high-risk patients with pure native aortic regurgitation, thi...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) went through a huge evolution in the last decades. Previously performed under general anesthesia, with transoperative transesophageal echocardiography guidance and using cutdown femoral artery access, th...
Background: There have been significant changes in the optimal antithrombotic regimen post transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) after the results of major clinical trials in the past few years. Given the clinical importance of the optimal a...
Peri- or postprocedural conduction disorders following transcatheter aortic valve implantation remain frequent, and identification of electrocardiogram predictors of postinterventional high-degree atrioventricular block is challenging. Here we presen...
Background: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a viable alternative therapeutic approach for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), following technological innovations in transcatheter aortic valve systems and advances in clinical...
Introduction: Alkaptonuria is an autosomal-recessive disorder affecting the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine which results in accumulation of homogentisic acid in connective tissues. The joints are most commonly affected, while the most commo...
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation/Replacement (TAVI/TAVR) has come a long way since the first-in-human implant by Prof Cribier & colleagues in 2002. Initially a consideration for inoperable/high-surgical-risk patients, TAVI is now indicated...
Aortic valve stenosis is a well-recognized valvular problem in the aging population. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is becoming an increasingly popular treatment alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement for frail elderly indiv...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) now represents the mainstay of treatment for severe aortic stenosis. Owing to its exceptional procedural efficacy and safety, TAVI has been extended to include patients at lower surgical risk, thus now e...
Background: In aortic stenosis, the left ventricle exerts additional force to pump blood through the narrowed aortic valve into the downstream arterial vasculature. Adaptive hypertrophy helps to maintain wall stress homeostasis but at the expense of...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an increasingly widespread percutaneous intervention of aortic valve replacement (AVR). The target population for TAVI is mainly composed of elderly, frail patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), m...
Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was the only symptom relieving and life-prolonging treatment until transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) became available. This option was introduced to treat old and high-risk patients. In a series o...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has revolutionised the management of severe aortic stenosis, particularly for patients deemed high risk or inoperable for traditional surgical aortic valve replacement. The transfemoral approach is the p...
Background/Objectives: Currently, the transfemoral approach is recognized as the primary method for accessing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). However, alternative techniques are needed when the transfemoral access is not suitable. We...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as a revolutionary therapeutic modality for the management of severe aortic stenosis (AS), particularly in patients who are at high or prohibitive risk for surgical aortic valve replacement (...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established alternative to surgery in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis and has expanded its indications to even low-surgical-risk patients. Conduction abnormalities (CA) and permane...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is currently becoming the method of choice in high-risk patients with severe aortic valve stenosis. Post-TAVI complications are more common owing to the increasing use of the method. The majority of TAVI...
Backround/Objectives: Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most commonly acquired valvular disorder. Patient risk stratification and the development of an accurate and reliable tool are crucial in identifying suitable candidates for TAVI. The present review s...
Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) is still the gold-standard treatment for aortic stenosis. However, the increasing use of biological prostheses, even in young patients, makes Valve-in-Valve (ViV) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)...
Aortic stenosis remains the most frequently occurring valvular pathology in the elderly population of Western countries. According to the latest guidelines, the therapeutic choice of aortic stenosis depends on the age of the patient (<75 years or...
Background: Bleeding complications are strong predictors of mortality and major morbidity in elderly patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Despite the high prevalence of frailt...
Background: An unexplained condition that follows transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is platelet count reduction (PR). According to published research, patients with balloon-expandable valves (BEVs) had a greater PR than those with self-e...
Background: Frailty strongly influences outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), but conventional risk models insufficiently capture functional and cognitive vulnerability. We compared conventional surgical risk scores with mult...
Background: The aim of this research is to describe the performance over time of transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVIs) in a high-volume center with a contemporary, real-world population. Methods: Patients referred for TAVIs at the Universi...
Evidence for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is scarce among patients with non-calcific aortic stenosis, and it is not known whether aortic valve calcification is associated with new cerebral ischemic lesions (CILs) that are detected b...
Background: The transfemoral approach represents the optimal access for TAVI due to its low invasiveness; however, up to 10–15% of TAVI candidates are considered unsuitable for femoral access because of significant peripheral vascular disease a...
Current prognostic risk scores in cardiac surgery do not benefit yet from machine learning (ML). This research aims to create a machine learning model to predict one-year mortality of a patient after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). We...
Temporary rapid ventricular pacing (TRVP) is required during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in order to reduce cardiac output and to facilitate balloon aortic valvuloplasty, prosthesis deployment, and post-deployment balloon dilation....
Background and objectives: Persistent left bundle branch block (P-LBBB) has been associated with poor clinical outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures. We hypothesized that the distance from the aortic valve to the proxi...
Background: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is increasingly used across all risk groups, meaning more patients are living long-term with transcatheter bioprosthetic valves. These patients are often multimorbid and vulnerable to both th...
Anesthesiologic management of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) is a key factor in procedural success and effectiveness. Although general anesthesia was the main anesthesiologic approach during the early years of the development of TAVI,...
Over the last decades, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or replacement (TAVR) has become a potential, widely accepted, and effective method of treating aortic stenosis in patients at moderate and high surgical risk and those disqualifie...
Background: The extent and distribution of valvular calcification may differ across hemodynamic subtypes of severe aortic stenosis (AS), but their clinical relevance in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) remains incomp...
(1) Background: The use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for the treatment of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis is expanding significantly. We aimed to perform a meta-analysis comparing the safety and efficacy of TAVI versus surgica...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was first presented in 2002 as a case report. Randomized controlled trials showed that TAVI could serve as an alternative for surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in high-risk patients. While the ind...
Objective. Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (ViV-TAVI) has emerged as a useful alternative intervention to redo-surgical aortic valve replacement (Redo-SVAR) for the treatment of degenerated bioprosthesis valve. However, there i...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as an important alternative to surgical aortic valve repair (SAVR) for patients with severe aortic stenosis. This rapidly advancing field has produced new-generation devices being delivered w...
Background: The management of patients with aortic valve pathologies can sometimes fall into a “gray zone”, where the optimal treatment approach is not straightforward. The comparative benefits of sutureless aortic valve replacement (SUAV...
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The present study aimed to analyze sleep quality and quality of Life (QoL) in patients undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). It was conducted at the Interventional Cardiology Unit of the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular...
(1) Aims: We sought to assess the impact of the extent of cardiac damage on survival among real-world patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). (2) Methods: A staging classification was appli...
The new-generation ACURATE neo2 system was commercially released in September 2020. In this study, we sought to compare the aortic regurgitation (AR) severity of the ACURATE neo2 versus the ACURATE neo transcatheter heart valve, using quantitative vi...
Background: Aortic insufficiency (AI) during long-term left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support creates a maladaptive recirculatory loop that impairs forward flow, increases left ventricular filling pressures, leading to progressive congestion,...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an effective treatment for severe aortic stenosis (AS); however, postoperative delirium (POD) can worsen patient outcomes. This study aimed to examine the risk factors for POD after TAVI, including po...
Background/Objectives: The expansion of minimally invasive and transcatheter approaches has progressively blurred boundaries between medical and surgical disciplines. Valvular heart diseases, especially aortic ones, exemplify this translational shift...
Background/Objectives: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established treatment for severe aortic stenosis. Prosthesis selection is increasingly important because balloon-expandable valves (BEVs) and self-expandable valves (SEVs) di...
Background and Objectives: In patients with severe aortic stenosis (sAS), it is crucial to maintain hemodynamic stability during the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). In this study, we...
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