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For Small Annuli, Self-Expanding TAVR May Have an Advantage

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Atlanta — A randomized transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) trial demonstrated that a self-expanding device performs better on multiple prognostically important measures of valve function at 1 year than a balloon-expandable device. In this head-to-head comparison in patients with severe aortic stenosis and a small aortic annulus, TAVR using the self-expanding valve was noninferior to […]

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Publish date : 2024-04-11 06:39:04

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