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Table 8 Procedural characteristics

From: Comprehensive geriatric assessment in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation – results from the CGA-TAVI multicentre registry

 

n/N (%)

Access route

 Transfemoral

55/71 (77.5)

 Transapical

9/71 (12.7)

 Transaortic

7/71 (9.9)

Type of THV

 SAPIEN XT

26/71 (36.6)

 SAPIEN 3

40/71 (56.3)

 Other

5/71 (7.0)

THV diameter

 23 mm

37/70 (52.9)

 26 mm

26/70 (37.1)

 29 mm

7/70 (10.0)

Second valve used

2/71 (2.8)

Pre-implantation balloon dilatation

63/71 (88.7)

Post-delivery balloon dilatation

9/71 (12.7)

  1. Legend: THV transcatheter heart valve