Embolic protection devices during TAVI - The "proof of the pudding"

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-27

  Van Mieghem, Nicolas M ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; NITINOL;

AGE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY EMBOLISM; BIOPROSTHESIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURGICAL AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WELLBEING;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; STROKE;

EID: 84860381196     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8I1A4     Document Type: Editorial

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