title: TAVR in patients with severe aortic stenosis and less than high risk: Future or present reality?
abstract: TAVR use is growing in patients with less than high surgical risk. Several registries, including this one, show excellent safety with TAVR in intermediate-risk patients compared with similar patients undergoing SAVR. Long-term data from ongoing randomized trials will answer definitively if we should routinely perform TAVR in intermediate-risk patients.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Tannas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jatene
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart & Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Deepak L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bhatt
mesh_terms: D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D065467:Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / Q000379:methods*