Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in the TAVR era: Not so new but definitely improved

Key Points

• BAV in the TAVR era is not well studied

• BAV resulted in improvements in aortic valve area and transvalvular pressure gradient, and in patients with impaired left ventricle function, ejection fraction improved.

  • These improvements diminished over time, but at one year were still improved compared to baseline.

• BAV resulted in changes of planned therapy

  • more than half of the patients treated as bridge for TAVR did not ultimately undergo TAVR

  • twice as many planned as bridge for surgical valve replacement actually had surgical valve replacement.
• BAV techniques remain unstandardized and can be improved

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