Low Incidence of Paravalvular Leakage With the Balloon-Expandable Sapien 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve Daniel Wendt, MD, Fadi Al-Rashid, MD, Philipp Kahlert, MD, Mareike Eißmann, MD, Karim El-Chilali, MD, Rolf Alexander Jánosi, MD, Susanne Pasa, MD, Konstantinos Tsagakis, MD, Oliver Liakopoulos, MD, Raimund Erbel, MD, Heinz Jakob, MD, Matthias Thielmann, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 100, Issue 3, Pages 819-826 (September 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.079 Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Sapien 3 transcatheter heart valve and Certitude delivery system (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 819-826DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.079) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Changes of mean pressure gradients (MPG, gray line) and aortic valve area (AVA, black line) of patients at risk from baseline to 30 days. The range bars show the standard deviation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 819-826DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.079) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Moderate (green), mild (red), and none or trace (blue) paravalvular aortic regurgitation (AR) at 30 days. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 819-826DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.079) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Survival after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with the Sapien 3 transcatheter heart valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA) for the total cohort (n = 54). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2015 100, 819-826DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.079) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions