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Association Between Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Early Postprocedural Stroke

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: JAMA

Source URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2735820

Author(s)

Chetan P. Huded, E. Murat Tuzcu, Amar Krishnaswamy, Stephanie L. Mick, Neal S. Kleiman, Lars G. Svensson, John Carroll, Vinod H. Thourani, Ajay J. Kirtane, Pratik Manandhar, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Sreekanth Vemulapalli, Samir R. Kapadia

This large review of over 100,000 patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement demonstrated a stroke rate of 2.3% within 30 days of the procedure, and no decrease in the rate between 2011 and 2015.