Systematic Approach to High Implantation of SAPIEN-3 Valve Achieves a Lower Rate of Conduction Abnormalities Including Pacemaker Implantation

• Published in: Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions Vol. 14; no. 1; p. e009407
• Main Authors: Sammour, Yasser, Banerjee, Kinjal, Kumar, Arnav, Lak, Hassan, Chawla, Sanchit, Incognito, Cameron, Patel, Jay, Kaur, Manpreet, Abdelfattah, Omar, Svensson, Lars G., Tuzcu, E. Murat, Reed, Grant W., Puri, Rishi, Yun, James, Krishnaswamy, Amar, Kapadia, Samir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Heart Association, Inc 01.01.2021
• Subjects: transcatheter aortic valve replacement; high deployment; implantation depth; atrioventricular block; hemodynamics

The conventional method of implanting balloon-expandable SAPIEN-3 (S3) valve results in a final 70:30 or 80:20 ratio of the valve in the aorta:left ventricular outflow tract with published rates of permanent pacemaker around 10%. We sought to evaluate whether higher implantation of S3 reduces conduc...