Cerebrovascular accidents complicating transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Frequency, timing and impact on outcomes

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-70

  Stortecky, Stefan ^a   Windecker, Stephan ^a,b   Pilgrim, Thomas ^a   Heg, Dik ^b   Buellesfeld, Lutz ^a   Khattab, Ahmed A ^a   Huber, Christoph ^a   Gloekler, Steffen ^a   Nietlispach, Fabian ^a   Mattle, Heinrich ^a   Jüni, Peter ^b   Wenaweser, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Clinical Trials Unit   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Cerebrovascular accident; Complication; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865523315     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8I1A11     Document Type: Article

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