Efficacy and Safety of Postdilation for a Self-Expanding Transcatheter Heart Valve

CONCLUSION: For transfemoral TAVR using the Acurate neo/neo2, BPD effectively reduces relevant PVR and decreases the risk of PPM without increasing adverse events. Transcatheter heart valve damage associated with BPD is rare, commonly avoidable, and does not jeopardize the net benefit of BPD.PMID:35593542

Source: The Journal of Invasive Cardiology - May 20, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Won-Keun Kim Matthias Renker Holger Nef Helge M öllmann Thomas Walther Yeong-Hoon Choi Christian W Hamm Source Type: research