The effect of transcatheter aortic valve implantation approaches on mortality.
Vincent Johan NijenhuisAlexander MeyerJorn BrouwerBakhtawar K MahmoodiAxel UnbehaunMarco SpazianoNicola BuzzattiAnja StundlTroels H JørgensenNynke H M KooistraMarianna AdamoSmriti SarafHafid AmraneGiuseppe BruschiCarlo ZivelonghiMartin J SwaansNikos WernerGeorg NickenigDavid Hildick-SmithPieter R StellaAzeem LatibLars SoendergaardJan-Malte SinningThierry LefevreMiralem PasicJorg KempfertJurrien M Ten BergPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2021)
The surgical intra-thoracic TA and DA TAVI are both associated with a higher 30-day mortality than TF TAVI. TA TAVI is associated with a higher 5-year mortality than TF TAVI. The DA approach may therefore have some advantages over the TA approach when TF access is not feasible.