Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
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Catheter Cardiovasc Interv · Mar 2010
Comparative StudyTranscatheter aortic valve implantation for high risk patients with severe aortic stenosis using the Edwards Sapien balloon-expandable bioprosthesis: a single centre study with immediate and medium-term outcomes.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TCAVI) is an emerging alternative therapy to open-heart surgery in high-risk patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis. ⋯ At medium term follow-up, both transcatheter approaches demonstrated good valve durability with no cardiac-related mortality post hospital discharge.