Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk for surgical complications: Summary assessment of the California Technology Assessment Forum

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tice, Jeffrey A ^a   Sellke, Frank W ^b   Schaff, Hartzell V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; EUROSCORE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BLOCK; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALIFORNIA; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904621861     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.09.056     Document Type: Article

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