{"id":1345,"date":"2009-11-14T23:45:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T04:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/at-the%c2%a0aha%c2%a0-early-data-on-trans-catheter-aortic-valve-implantations\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:08","slug":"at-the%c2%a0aha%c2%a0-early-data-on-trans-catheter-aortic-valve-implantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2009\/11\/14\/at-the%c2%a0aha%c2%a0-early-data-on-trans-catheter-aortic-valve-implantations\/","title":{"rendered":"At the\u00a0AHA:\u00a0 Early Data on Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Implantations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Saturday afternoon Late-Breaking Interventional Clinical Science session, Dr. Helene Eltchaininoff presented early results on outcomes following trans-catheter aortic valve implantations\u00a0peformed in 244 patients in\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/directnews.americanheart.org\/extras\/sessions2009\/slides\/40_pslides.pdf\">French Multicenter Registry<\/a>.\u00a0 Overall 30-day mortality was 12.7% and incidence of vascular access related complications was 6.5%.\u00a0 The outcomes results are comparable to\u00a0the recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/119\/23\/3009\">reported experience<\/a> of\u00a0a\u00a0Canadian group that performed aortic valve implantations using trans-arterial and trans-apical approaches.\u00a0\u00a0Providing some\u00a0context for these data is another\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/meeting_abstract\/120\/18_MeetingAbstracts\/S957-a?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=trans-catheter+aortic+valve+LVOT&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;volume=120&amp;issue=18+Supplement&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT\">AHA presentation<\/a> by\u00a0an American group on limitations of wide-spread application of trans-catheter aortic valve implantations.\u00a0 They found that among 267 patients referred for the procedure, two thirds were deemed unsuitable.\u00a0 A major reason was mismatch between limited femoral vascular access and need for larger aortic valve size.\u00a0 They report that improvements in technology may change this trend over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Saturday afternoon Late-Breaking Interventional Clinical Science session, Dr. Helene Eltchaininoff presented early results on outcomes following trans-catheter aortic valve implantations\u00a0peformed in 244 patients in\u00a0the French Multicenter Registry.\u00a0 Overall 30-day mortality was 12.7% and incidence of vascular access related complications was 6.5%.\u00a0 The outcomes results are comparable to\u00a0the recently\u00a0reported experience of\u00a0a\u00a0Canadian group that performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}