title: [Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation].
abstract: Aortic valve stenosis is associated with severe morbidity and death within several years of symptom onset, and its accepted treatment is surgical aortic valve replacement. However, many affected patients are not referred for surgery because of old age and significant comorbidities. In recent years, an alternative treatment approach has been developed, transcatheter aortic-valve implantation. In this review we would like to describe this treatment modality and to present several cases performed in our center.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Danny
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dvir
authors.forename: Abid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Assali
authors.forename: Eyal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Porat
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sagie
authors.forename: Yaron
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shapira
authors.forename: Hana
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vaknin-Assa
authors.forename: Vachislav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bobovnikov
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Battler
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kornowski
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans