Summary Background Coronary stents have evolved over time, from bare-metal stents to drug-eluting stents, and now to bioactive stents. Aims We sought to explore the immediate outcome of the titanium-nitride-oxide-coated…
New guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) on the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy were published recently in the December 2011 issue of the European Heart Journal…
A 52-year-old woman was referred for surgical treatment of a symptomatic aortic stenosis. Her medical history included unexplored mild mental retardation. Physical examination revealed high blood pressure (140/87 mmHg) with…
An 86-year-old woman complained of gradually increasing dyspnoea (New York Heart Association stage III). Ten years previously she had surgical aortic valve replacement with a stented bioprosthesis (21 mm Carpentier-Edwards;…
Summary Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), introduced 10 years ago by Alain Cribier, has now been performed in more than 50,000 patients worldwide. Our vision of the main directions for…
Summary Aortic valve replacement (AVR) is a routine procedure for decades to treat patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis. The introduction of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) by Professor Alain Cribier…
Summary Patient selection plays a crucial role in the success of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). It requires meticulous attention to the smallest of details and needs to be performed…
Summary The penetration rate of devices in general, and in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) specifically, is significantly delayed in the United States of America (USA) compared with in Europe….
Summary It is two decades since the first report of transcatheter implantation of a stented aortic valve in an animal. The first implantation of a transcatheter aortic valve in a…
Summary The development of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) by our group has been a 20-year odyssey. In 1993, postmortem studies validated the concept of intravalvular stenting in calcific aortic…
