Tuesday, May 13, 2014

NEJM - Aortic Valve: Expanding Transcatheter Prosthesis


"Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Prosthesis"  
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1400590?query=featured_home 
"CONCLUSIONS

In patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at increased surgical risk, TAVR with a self-expanding transcatheter aortic-valve bioprosthesis was associated with a significantly higher rate of survival at 1 year than surgical aortic-valve replacement."

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