Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Two Decades of Evolution - TAVI From Current Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the treatment of valvular heart diseases, transcatheter therapies have changed the rules of the game, especially in the case of aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. Since the first in man transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI) performed by Dr. Alain Cribier in 2002 in a non-operable aortic stenosis (AS) patient, TAVI has changed the lives of so many patients for whom medical treatment was, up to then, the only option.

Objective

This article outlines patient selection and pre-procedure evaluation, current perspectives, recent advances, current and future devices, current guidelines informing the use of TAVI, expanding indications for TAVI, ongoing challenges and the future of TAVI.

Methods

The use of these percutaneous techniques has also inc

SUBMITTER: Nabil N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10875938 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature