Archives of cardiovascular diseases
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Arch Cardiovasc Dis · Aug 2016
Trends over the past 4 years in population characteristics, 30-day outcomes and 1-year survival in patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is recommended in patients with severe aortic stenosis that is either inoperable or at high-risk for surgical valve replacement. ⋯ Over the past 4 years, TAVI has been increasingly performed using a transfemoral approach. Treated patients are at lower-risk with less co-morbidity. Thirty-day mortality and complications remained unchanged, but length of stay after TAVI and 1-year mortality decreased dramatically.