Aortic Valve (TAVR/TAVI)JACCFriday, August 28, 2026
Aortic Stenosis Mortality in the TAVR Era: Rising Middle-Aged Mortality and Widening Rural Disparities.
1 min read·By E. Nolan Beckett, MD·Source: JACC. Advances
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Two studies this morning sharpen the durability-and-selection tension that has defined the low-risk expansion debate.
The Bern cohort (N=1,032, Sapien S3/Ultra, single-center, non-randomized) found that 43% of implants met at least one criterion for suboptimal deployment — noncoaxial (23%), too deep (25%), or underexpanded (5%).
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Authors: Siddiqi AK, Ahmed Cheema AA, Hussain S, Stib MT, Rojas CA et al.
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