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SUBMITTER: Badiani S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785196 | biostudies-other | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Badiani Sveeta S Bhattacharyya Sanjeev S Lloyd Guy G
Current cardiology reports 20160401 4
Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common primary valve disorder in the elderly with an increasing prevalence; transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become an accepted alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) in the high risk or inoperable patient. Appropriate selection of patients for TAVI is crucial and requires a multidisciplinary approach including cardiothoracic surgeons, interventional cardiologists, anaesthetists, imaging experts and specialist nurses. Multimodali ...[more]