Impact of left ventricular outflow tract calcification in patients undergoing transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation

CONCLUSIONS: In patients undergoing TAVI, the presence of significant LVOT calcification is common and associated with worse short-term clinical and functional outcomes as well as higher one-year mortality rates compared to patients w/o LVOT calcification.PMID:34658340 | DOI:10.4244/EIJ-D-21-00464

Source: EuroIntervention - October 18, 2021 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Lara Waldschmidt Alina Go ßling Sebastian Ludwig Matthias Linder Lisa Voigtl änder David Grundmann Oliver Daniel Bhadra Till Demal Johannes Schirmer Hermann Reichenspurner Stefan Blankenberg Dirk Westermann Moritz Seiffert Lenard Conradi Niklas Schofer Source Type: research