Kimi Sato, Yoshihiro Seo, Tomoko Ishizu, Noor K Albakaa, Masaki Izumo, Atsushi Okada, Chisato Izumi, Shu Inami, Yasuharu Takeda, Toshinari Onishi, Yuki Izumi, Akiko Kumagai, Tomoko Fukuda, Naohiko Takahashi, Takeshi Kitai, Hiroyuki Iwano, Shigeo Sugawara, Kazumi Akasaka, Kenji Harada, Yoshiko Masaoka, Kenya Kusunose, Kazuaki Tanabe, Takahiro Sakamoto, Takeshi Takamura, Masaki Ieda
Background Prognostic implications of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in low-gradient (LG) aortic stenosis (AS) remain controversial. The authors hypothesized that differences in cardiac functional recovery may solve this ongoing controversy. The aim was to evaluate clinical outcomes and the response of left ventricular (LV) function following TAVI in patients with LG AS. Methods and Results This multicenter retrospective study included 1742 patients with severe AS undergoing TAVI between January 2015 and March 2019...
August 15, 2023: Journal of the American Heart Association