title: [Selection of patients for transcatheter aortic valve implantation].
abstract: A good selection of patients is a crucial step before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in order to select the good indications and choose the access route. TAVI should be considered only in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis and either contraindication or high surgical risk. Indication for TAVI should be discussed in a multidisciplinary team meeting. Echocardiography and/or CT scan are mandatory to evaluate the aortic annulus size and select the good prosthesis size. The possibility of transfemoral implantation is evaluated by angiography and CT scan, and based on the arterial diameters, but also on the presence of tortuosities and arterial calcifications.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, CHU de Rouen, service de cardiologie, 76000 Rouen, France. Christophe.Tron@chu-rouen.fr
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tron
authors.forename: Matthieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Godin
authors.forename: Pierre-Yves
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Litzler
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Jérome
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Caudron
authors.forename: Jean-Nicolas
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Dacher
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Borz
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Canville
authors.forename: Baptiste
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kurtz
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bessou
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cribier
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eltchaninoff
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed