Early clinical and echocardiographic outcomes after SAPIEN 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement in inoperable, high-risk and intermediate-risk patients with aortic stenosis

Abstract

Major vascular complications during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) originate mainly from the puncture area, namely the groin in transfemoral approaches, and are also influenced by antithrombotic/antiplatelet therapy. The results of studies such as this one, in which a next-generation transcatheter heart valve called SAPIEN 3 is used, show that the introduction of smaller, less-harmful catheters has substantially...