Toward Precision in Balloon-Expandable TAVR: Oversizing Tight Versus Just Right

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¹ WVU Heart & Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. Electronic address: mohamad.alkhouli@wvumedicine.org.
² WVU Heart & Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Mohamad Alkhouli et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017.

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. 2017 Apr 24;10(8):821-823.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.03.003.

¹ WVU Heart & Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. Electronic address: mohamad.alkhouli@wvumedicine.org.
² WVU Heart & Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Keywords: balloon-expandable valve; computed tomography; paravalvular leak; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; valve sizing.

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