Transcatheter valve-in-valve therapies: Patient selection, prosthesis assessment and selection, results, and future directions

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wilbring, Manuel ^a   Alexiou, Konstantin ^a   Tugtekin, Sems Malte ^a   Sill, Bjoern ^b   Simonis, Gregor ^a   Matschke, Klaus ^a   Kappert, Utz ^a  

^a University Heart Center Dresden   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic; Mitral; TAVI; Transcatheter; Valve in valve; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; SAFETY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSCATHETER VALVE IN VALVE THERAPY;

EID: 84872317277     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-012-0341-3     Document Type: Article

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