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Contemporary short-term outcomes of surgery for aortic stenosis: transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement.

Shunsuke SaitoToshimi SairenchiMasahiro TezukaYusuke TakeiGo TsuchiyaKoji OgataOsamu MontaIkuko ShibasakiYasushi TsutsumiHirotsugu Fukuda
Published in: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (2021)
TAVR was superior to SAVR in the sense of less invasiveness and valvular function. However, the indication of TAVR in low-risk patients should be carefully discussed, because paravalvular leakage was a risk factor for short-term mortality.
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