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Patients With Low Aortic Valve Gradient May Be Less Likely to Reap TAVR’s Benefits

Low aortic valve gradient and LV dysfunction are commonly seen in patients undergoing TAVR, but only the former is independently associated with poorer outcomes in the first year following the ...
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TAVR Provides ‘Acceptable’ Outcomes in Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis Patients With Poor Ventricular Function

WASHINGTON, DC—Patients with classical low-flow, low-gradient severe symptomatic aortic stenosis appear to do well following TAVR, with the multicenter TOPAS-TAVI registry demonstrating a relatively ...
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TAVI in Heart Failure, How Much Risk Is Acceptable?

In this issue of the European Journal of Heart Failure, Gotzmann et al. [5] present the results of a TAVI population stratified by left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and mean gradient over the ...