Cerebral embolic protection and severity of stroke following transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Toshiaki IsogaiHusitha Reddy VanguruAmar KrishnaswamyAnkit AgrawalNikolaos SpiliasShashank ShekharAnas M SaadBeni Rai VermaRishi PuriGrant W ReedZoran B PopovićShinya UnaiJames J YunKen UchinoSamir R KapadiaPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2022)
CEP use may be associated with attenuated severity of stroke despite no significant difference in overall stroke incidence compared with CEP nonuse. This finding is considered hypothesis-generating and needs to be confirmed in large prospective studies.