extreme age

Commentary

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients of Extreme Age: Age is Just a Number

10/01/2015

Commentary on this month's article by Orvin et al. Is there an age at which patients should be considered too high risk for TAVI? Unfortunately, the conventional risk models, the STS score and EuroSCORE, are in essence borrowed tools, and are...

Commentary on this month's...

10/01/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Efficacy and Safety of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Aortic Stenosis Patients With Extreme Age

07/15/2015

Alexander Sagie , MD;

Yaron Shapira , MD;

Abid R. Assali , MD;

Hana Vaknin-Assa , MD;

Ran Kornowski , MD;

Amos Levi , MD;

Katia Orvin , MD;

Gabi Greenberg , MD;

Pablo Codner , MD;

The in-hospital and long-term outcomes of patients at extreme age with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation are investigated. Meticulously selected patients at extreme age benefit from TAVI...

The in-hospital and long-term...

07/15/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology