Sung-Han Yoon, Won-Keun Kim, Abhijeet Dhoble, Stephan Milhorini Pio, Vasilis Babaliaros, Hasan Jilaihawi, Thomas Pilgrim, Ole De Backer, Sabine Bleiziffer, Flavien Vincent, Tobias Shmidt, Christian Butter, Norihiko Kamioka, Lena Eschenbach, Matthias Renker, Masahiko Asami, Mohamad Lazkani, Buntaro Fujita, Antoinette Birs, Marco Barbanti, Ashish Pershad, Uri Landes, Brad Oldemeyer, Mitusnobu Kitamura, Luke Oakley, Tomoki Ochiai, Tarun Chakravarty, Mamoo Nakamura, Philip Ruile, Florian Deuschl, Daniel Berman, Thomas Modine, Stephan Ensminger, Ran Kornowski, Rudiger Lange, James M McCabe, Mathew R Williams, Brian Whisenant, Victoria Delgado, Stephan Windecker, Eric Van Belle, Lars Sondergaard, Bernard Chevalier, Michael Mack, Jeroen J Bax, Martin B Leon, Raj R Makkar
BACKGROUND: Bicuspid aortic stenosis accounts for almost 50% of patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement in the younger patients. Expanding the indication of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) toward lower-risk and younger populations will lead to increased use of TAVR for patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) stenosis despite the exclusion of bicuspid anatomy in all pivotal clinical trials. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to evaluate the association of BAV morphology and outcomes of TAVR with the new-generation devices...
September 1, 2020: Journal of the American College of Cardiology