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SUBMITTER: Pagnesi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5808664 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pagnesi Matteo M Baldetti Luca L Del Sole Paolo P Mangieri Antonio A Ancona Marco B MB Regazzoli Damiano D Buzzatti Nicola N Giannini Francesco F Colombo Antonio A Latib Azeem A
Interventional cardiology (London, England) 20170901 2
Predilatation has been historically considered a mandatory step before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) since it facilitates valve crossing and prosthesis delivery, ensures optimal valve expansion and improves hemodynamic stability during valve deployment. However, as a result of procedural evolution over time, direct TAVI (without pre-implantation balloon aortic valvuloplasty) has emerged as an interesting option to simplify the procedure and to avoid potential valvuloplasty-relat ...[more]