Clinical characteristics and outcomes of alcohol septal ablation in the era of transcatheter valve interventions.
Pedro Engel GonzalezSamuel GregersonShazil MahmoodCollin BrooksPedro A VillablancaTiberio M FrisoliJames LeeJanet F WymanDee Dee WangWilliam W O'NeillBrian P O'NeillPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2024)
Preemptive ASA before TMVR was performed in patients with higher degree of clinical comorbidities, and correspondingly is associated with worse short-term clinical outcomes in comparison to ASA for HCM patients. ASA before TMVR enabled percutaneous mitral interventions in a small but significant minority of patients that would have otherwise been excluded. The degree of LVOT and neoLVOT area increase is significant and predictable.