Objectives : The authors sought to examine the adoption of transcatheter aortic valve
replacement (TAVR) in Western Europe and investigate factors that may influence the …

… high risk population surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) … guidelines on the management
of valve disease from the ESC … A better resource utilization is becoming a “real” problem in …

… the choice of mechanical versus bioprosthetic devices for aortic valve replacement. We found
substantial variation, nationally, among centers, in type of valves used, ranging from 0% to …

… if aortic valve replacement is not conducted 1, 2. Surgical aortic valve replacement has been
a … However, in high risk patients, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been …

… national administrative claims database to evaluate trends in utilization of percutaneous
mitral valve repair shortly after approval of the device and to characterize rates of in-hospital …

… trends in utilization of cardiac valve replacement and individual valve replacement surgeries
in … likely to undergo overall cardiac valve replacement (6.92% versus 12.12%), aortic valve …

… significant regional differences in TAVI utilization, in-hospital … Transcatheter aortic valve
implantation (TAVI) is the … perioperative mortality after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). …

… access route for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The majority of experienced
TAVR centers use two 6F Perclose ProGlide™ devices to close the primary vascular access …

… replaced by a cryopreserved pulmonary homograft. This achieves the only living aortic
valve replacement … to that of conventional aortic valve replacement, despite the perceived …

… The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the use of transcatheter aortic valve
replacement (TAVR) relative to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and to examine …