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SUBMITTER: Coughlan JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234484 | biostudies-other | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Coughlan J J JJ Kiernan Thomas T Mylotte Darren D Arnous Samer S
Interventional cardiology (London, England) 20180901 3
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is the treatment of choice in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are either inoperable or at high risk for conventional surgical aortic valve replacement. Recent data have also shown favourable outcomes in patients deemed to be at intermediate operative risk, which expands the application of this novel technology. Despite its success, TAVI has been associated with rare life-threatening complications. Of these, aortic annular ruptur ...[more]