Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has matured into a standard treatment option
for patients with severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis (AS) across the whole spectrum of …

Objective Sutureless aortic valves are a novel option for aortic valve replacement. We
sought to demonstrate noninferiority of sutureless versus standard bioprostheses in severe …

For the year 2018, more than 22,000 published references can be found in PubMed when
entering the search term “cardiac surgery”. As in the last 4 years, this review focusses on …

Background Randomized clinical trials have shown that transcatheter aortic valve
replacement is noninferior to surgery in low surgical risk patients. We compared outcomes in …

Objectives Rapid deployment valves have been developed as a means to adjust for
limitations in transcatheter aortic valve replacement and surgical aortic valve replacement …

Conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) is the 'gold standard'for treatment of
severe or symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. The increasing age of patients and increasing …

OBJECTIVES Sutureless aortic valves demonstrated non-inferiority to standard stented
valves for major cardiovascular and cerebral events at 1 year after aortic valve replacement …

Background This study was conducted to determine the incidence of postoperative
conduction disorders and need for pacemaker (PM) implantation after aortic valve …

Background This study describes the long-term survival, risk of reoperation and clinical
outcomes of patients undergoing solitary surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) with a …

Background With guidelines progressively recommending bioprosthetic aortic valves in
younger patients, a greater emphasis is placed on structural valve deterioration (SVD) as an …