title: [Percutaneous aortic valve implantation: results and perspectives].
abstract: As the French population is aging, a growing number of elderly patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis are going to require therapeutic management. Approximately 30 to 40% of these patients do not undergo surgical treatment and a high proportion is considered to be at high risk for surgery. The transluminal aortic valve implantation technique has been increasingly used over the past few years, thus providing a solution to a major therapeutic issue in our industrialized countries. While the cardiology community was rapidly convinced of its efficacy, remaining doubts regarding the outcome of this technique in terms of mortality were erased by the recent publication of results achieved in cohort B of the Partner US trial. This new approach is clearly here to stay and should soon reach a maturity phase with respect to its indications, the selection of patients and technical aspects.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital privé Jacques-Cartier, institut cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, 91300 Massy, France.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hovasse
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lefèvre
authors.forename: Marie-claude
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Morice
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chevalier
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayashida
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garot
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Donzeau-Gouge
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Farge
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bouvier
authors.forename: Bertrand
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cormier
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design