New Aortic Valves on the Horizon
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Introduction
Catheter therapy as an alternative to surgical cardiovascular therapy has had a long and steady development process beginning in the 1960s. When Charles Dotter first described opening a superficial femoral artery with a sequence of rigid dilators, he recognized many possibilities for percutaneous approaches as alternatives to traditional surgical operations. Remarkably, he spoke of percutaneous valve replacement, even at that early juncture, at the birth of catheter therapy for cardiovascular disease.
The subsequent development of alternatives to traditional sur
Who Should Receive a Percutaneous Aortic Valve and Who Should Not?
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Ibrahim Akin, MD, Stephan Kische, MD, Henrik Schneider, MD, Tim C. Rehders, MD, Jasmin Ortak, MD, Andreas Liebold, MD*, Christoph A. Nienaber, MD, Hüseyin Ince, MD
Introduction
Rising life expectancy results in an increase in degenerative and neoplastic diseases. Population-based observational studies revealed that 1–2% of patients > 65 years of age have moderate-to-severe aortic stenosis (AS).1 Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) dates back to 1960 and is currently the only treatment option for severe AS. It has been shown t
