Transfemoral TAVI without pre-dilatation using balloon-expandable devices: a case-matched analysis

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 735-742

  Conradi, Lenard ^a   Schaefer, Andreas ^a   Seiffert, Moritz ^a   Schirmer, Johannes ^a   Schaefer, Ulrich ^a   Schön, Gerhard ^b   Blankenberg, Stefan ^a   Reichenspurner, Hermann ^a   Treede, Hendrik ^a   Diemert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balloon expandable; Heart valve disease; TAVI; Transfemoral

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EXPANDING STENT; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AORTA VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; DEVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84940446608     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-015-0836-1     Document Type: Article

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