Worldwide TAVI registries: what have we learned?

With a rapidly aging society, the number of patients with cardiovascular disease—in particular aortic stenosis—is progressively increasing. Although conventional aortic valve replacement remains the only treatment known to improve prognosis and symptoms in symptomatic patients with aortic stenosis, about one-third are still withhold from the life-saving therapy. Based on the compelling evidence of the randomized Placement of Aortic transcatheter...