Open AccessIn Touch But Out of Time: Aggressive Hospital Discharge and Readmissions After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Author(s) -
Kleiman Neal S.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.117.007086
Subject(s) - medicine , valve replacement , aortic valve replacement , cardiology , emergency medicine , stenosis
The first trial of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) demonstrated the utility of the procedure in infirm patients who were judged to have too high an operative risk to undergo open aortic valve replacement.[1][1] Since then, the rate of growth for valve technology as well as its clinical