Review Article

Emerging Approaches of Transcatheter Valve Repair/Insertion

Table 2

Procedural and in-hospital results of patients submitted to transfemoral TAVI approach in our Institution.

Patients ( )107
Hospital stay, days (mean ± SD) 9.5 ± 1.4
Procedural success, (%) 100 (93.5)
Vascular complications, (%) 31 (29)
Need for permanent pacemaker, (%) 19 (17.8)
Neurological event, (%) 3 (2.8)
Acute renal failure requiring CVVH, (%) 5 (4.7)

30-day clinical outcomes
 Death, (%) 1 (0.9)
 Cardiac death, (%) 0
 LVEF, (%) 52.6 ± 11.5

Six months cumulative clinical outcomes
 Death, (%) 12 (12.2)
 Cardiac death, (%) 2 (2.0)
 LVEF (%), mean ± SD 53.22 ± 9.1

SD: standard deviation; CVVH: continuous veno-venous hemofiltration; LVEF: left ventricle ejection fraction.