TAVR: Just How Minimalistic Should it Get?

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¹ Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: ferber08@gmail.com.
² Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Fernando Luiz de Melo Bernardi et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2019.

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. 2019 Apr 22;12(8):778-780.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2019.02.048. Epub 2019 Mar 27.

¹ Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: ferber08@gmail.com.
² Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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Keywords: TAVR; balloon aortic valvuloplasty; pre-dilatation; self-expanding valves.

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