Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Prosthesis

Submitted by: Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Source URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1400590?query=OF&

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Author(s): DH Adams and others for the US CoreValve Clinical Investigators

Transcatheter AVR (TAVR) was compared to surgical AVR for treatment of aortic stenosis in 795 high risk patients. TAVR was associated with a decreased risk of death at 1 year (14% vs 19%; p

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