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. 2018 Jan;15(1):55-60.
doi: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2018.01.005.

TAVR in 2017-What we know? What to expect?

Panagiota Kourkoveli  1 , Konstantinos Spargias  1 , George Hahalis  2
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TAVR in 2017-What we know? What to expect?

Panagiota Kourkoveli et al. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2018 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: Aortic valve; Surgery; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation; Transcatheter heart valves.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. SAPIEN, SAPIEN XT, SAPIEN 3 valves (Edwards Lifesciences, A) and Corevalve, Evolut R valves (Medtronic, B).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Kaplan–Meyer mortality curves in US Corevalve High Risk with STS score < 7%.
STS: Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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