Planning for the Future: Lifetime Management Considerations for TAVI Patients

Sponsored by Medtronic

Summary

By establishing a constant parallel between the situation in the United States and that in Japan, based on data collected daily, Jeffrey Popma and Shinichi Shirai provide current insights into the use of the soft expanding supra-annular evolution platform. In particular, they address the question of which patient type to opt for supra-annular, of the relationship between gradience at the end of the procedure and the long-term valve durability (lifetime management), and of commissure alignment.