title: The transcatheter valve technology pipeline for treatment of adult valvular heart disease.
abstract: The transcatheter valve technology pipeline has started as simple balloon valvuloplasty for the treatment of stenotic heart valves and evolved since the year 2000 to either repair or replace heart valves percutaneously with multiple devices. In this review, the present technology and its application are illuminated and a glimpse into the near future is dared from a physician's perspective.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Jena, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany figulla@figulla.org.
authors.forename: Hans R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Figulla
authors.affiliation: St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Webb
authors.affiliation: Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Department of Cardiology Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lauten
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston, Evanston, USA.
authors.forename: Ted
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Feldman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D063126:Balloon Valvuloplasty; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans
keywords: Mitraclip; Mitral stenosis; TAVI; TAVR; TVT; Tricuspid valve; Valvuloplasty