Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Harstad, Norway

Publications

• Research Article   
  Left and Right Ventricular Functional Changes after Transapical, Transfemoral, Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Single-Center Observational Study
  Author(s): Assami Rösner*, Didrik Kjønås, Siri Malm and Henrik Schirmer
  
  Background: Decreasing Right Ventricular (RV) and Left Ventricular (LV) function after surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement (SAVR or TAVR, respectively) is an important risk factor for morbidity and mortality. Although Transapical (TA)-TAVR is an independent risk factor for post-procedural mortality, limited knowledge is available regarding long-term changes in RV and LV function. The study aimed to evaluate LV and RV performance following four different AVR procedures, including TA-, Transfemoral (TF)-TAVR, and SAVR with and without coronary artery bypass grafting (± CABG). Methods: Patients with severe AS were consecutively included and assigned to TA-TAVR, TF-TAVR, or SAVR ± CABG groups. A total of 130 patients underwent preoperative conventional and strain-rate-imaging echocardiography, with .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-9880.23.13.762

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