Aims In view of the currently available evidence from randomized trials, we aimed to
compare the collective safety and efficacy of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) …

Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of
Cardiology (http://www. cardiosource. org), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery …

Abstract Aims The Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC), founded in 2010, was
intended to (i) identify appropriate clinical endpoints and (ii) standardize definitions of these …

Aims Owing to new evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in low-risk patients
with severe aortic stenosis, we compared the collective safety and efficacy of transcatheter …

Objectives: To propose standardized consensus definitions for important clinical endpoints
in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), investigations in an effort to improve the …

Background—There is a lack of information on the incidence and predictors of early mortality
at 30 days and late mortality between 30 days and 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve …

Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) is a common and serious
postoperative complication of cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), and …

Background: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as an important
treatment for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who are at high operative risk …

The first human transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in 2002, and several
subsequent single-center series, showed the feasibility of this new approach for the …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the influence of baseline renal function
and periprocedural acute kidney injury (AKI) on prognosis after transcatheter aortic valve …