PROTECTED TAVR. Stroke has been a feared complication of TAVI from the beginning, and remains so despite substantial reductions in risk over time. One study using data from the STS/ACC TVT Registry ...

Stroke remains a problem after TAVR and continues to feed discussions around how extensively cerebral embolic protection devices and other strategies should be used. In a session during TVT Connect, ...

Patients who suffer a stroke during hospitalization for infective endocarditis (IE) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have a dismal prognosis, with more than half dying during ...

A new registry study has shown a high rate of stroke mortality in the few years following TAVR, but the authors suggest this may be because of the high-risk population included.

In logistic regression analyses, prior stroke/TIA (OR = 1.84; P = .046) and the first 300 TAVR implantations (OR = 1.784; P = .04) influenced occurrence of stroke at 30 days.

I was one of the estimated 2.5 million Americans over the age of 75 with aortic stenosis, or AS, a hardening and narrowing of the aortic valve — the primary… ...

A device designed to remove embolic material—fragments of tissue that can be released into the bloodstream during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)—did not result in a reduction in ...

In a cohort of patients who had transcatheter aortic valve replacement at 22 hospitals in Michigan, post-TAVR stroke was more common at institutions designated as comprehensive stroke centers ...

That said, patients aged 65-69 who underwent early TAVR derived the most benefits, with significant reduction in stroke risk (0% early TAVR vs. 13% CS) and had six times lower rate of death ...

The study, published in the December issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, analyzed data from almost 12,000 patients who underwent TAVR between February 2011 and June 2021. Of the patients ...

Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) is an alternative to surgery in patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis, on the basis of clinical evidence from multiple randomized trials. 1-12 ...