A plea for caution: transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the Medtronic CoreValve™ prosthesis without balloon predilatation.
Department of Cardiology, Herzzentrum Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Ralf
R
Zahn
Timm
T
Bauer
Falk-Udo
FU
Sack
Andreas
A
Lehman
Bernd
B
Cornelius
Rudolf
R
Schiele
D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D065467:Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome