TAVR for aortic valve regurgitation: Ready for a randomized trial?

Jorge A BelardiPablo Lamelas

Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2019)

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement has been used successfully to treat native aortic valve regurgitation. Current observational evidence shows promising results in terms of procedural success while outcome data are difficult to interpret given the observational nature of the evidence. We are ready for a randomized trial, which will be very challenging to run.

Keyphrases

aortic valve
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
aortic stenosis
transcatheter aortic valve implantation
aortic valve replacement
cross sectional
electronic health record
big data
heart failure
artificial intelligence
deep learning
ejection fraction