The German Aortic Valve Registry (GARY): in-hospital outcome

Conclusion
The in-hospital outcome results of this registry show that conventional surgery yields excellent results in all risk groups and that catheter-based aortic valve replacements is an alternative to conventional surgery in high risk and elderly patients.

Source: European Heart Journal - June 21, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Hamm, C. W., Mollmann, H., Holzhey, D., Beckmann, A., Veit, C., Figulla, H.-R., Cremer, J., Kuck, K.-H., Lange, R., Zahn, R., Sack, S., Schuler, G., Walther, T., Beyersdorf, F., Bohm, M., Heusch, G., Funkat, A.-K., Meinertz, T., Neumann, T., Papoutsis, K. Tags: FASTTRACK CLINICAL Source Type: research