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Self-expanding valve outperforms balloon-expandable valve for TAVR in patients with small valve annulus

People with a small aortic annulus, a part of the heart's anatomy where the left ventricle meets the aorta, who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a supra-annular ...
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Choice between self-expanding, balloon-expandable TAVR valve multifaceted decision

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During the past decade, the options for practitioners of transcatheter aortic valve replacement have expanded on ...
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In small aortic annuli, self-expanding TAVR valve may be preferred for hemodynamics

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with small aortic annuli requiring TAVR, self-expanding valves had better hemodynamic results than ...
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SMART trial reaffirms hemodynamic superiority of TAVR self-expanding valve

Additional analysis from the SMall Annuli Randomized To Evolut or SAPIEN (SMART) study demonstrated clinical non-inferiority of self-expanding valves (SEV) versus balloon-expandable valves (BEV) in ...
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Self-Expanding Valves Shine in Small Aortic Annuli

In patients with severe stenosis in a small aortic annulus (≤ 430 mm 2), more than 85% women, should the Evolut self-expanding supra-annular valve (Medtronic) or the SAPIEN balloon-expandable ...