Effective Orifice Area of Balloon-Expandable and Self-Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Prostheses: An Echo Doppler Comparative Study

Published data on the size-specific effective orifice area (EOA) of transcatheter heart valves (THVs) remain scarce. Here, we sought to investigate the intra-individual changes in EOA and mean transvalvular aortic gradient (MG) of the Sapien 3 (S3), CoreValve (CV), and Evolut R (EVR) prostheses both...

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Main Authors: Mohamad Kanso, Marion Kibler, Sebastien Hess, Jérome Rischner, Philoktimon Plastaras, Michel Kindo, Minh Hoang, Fabien De Poli, Pierre Leddet, Hélène Petit, Floriane Zeyons, Annie Trinh, Kensuke Matsushita, Olivier Morel, Patrick Ohlmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/2/186