Neurological Events Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Their Predictors: A Report From the CoreValve Trials [Structural Heart Disease]

Conclusions— Predictors of early stroke after TAVR included clinical and procedural factors; predictors of later stroke were limited to patient but not anatomic characteristics. These findings indicate that further refinement of imaging to identify anatomic factors predisposing to embolization may help improve stroke prediction in patients undergoing TAVR. Clinical Trial Registrations— URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifiers: NCT01240902, NCT01531374.

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Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - September 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kleiman, N. S., Maini, B. J., Reardon, M. J., Conte, J., Katz, S., Rajagopal, V., Kauten, J., Hartman, A., McKay, R., Hagberg, R., Huang, J., Popma, J., for the CoreValve Investigators Tags: Valvular Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Surgery, Catheter-Based Coronary and Valvular Interventions, Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke Structural Heart Disease Source Type: research