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Upper-extremity Approach for Secondary Access in Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Published on: August 8, 2025
The novel echo-guided ProGlide technique during percutaneous transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Yohsuke Honda1, Motoharu Araki1, Masahiro Yamawaki1
1Saiseikai Yokohama City Eastern Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Yokohama, Japan.
Objectives:
The aim of this study was to assess clinical benefit of the Echo-guided ProGlide technique in patients undergoing percutaneous transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TF-TAVI).
Background:
The efficacy of the Echo-guided ProGlide technique during percutaneous TF-TAVI was not previously clarified.
Methods:
A total of 121 consecutive patients who underwent percutaneous TF-TAVI at our institution between February 2014 and July 2017 were enrolled in this study. According to the introduction of this novel technique in March 2016, patients were divided into two groups (echo-guided group who underwent TAVI from March 2016 to July 2017, n = 63; not echo-guided group who underwent TAVI from February 2014 to February 2016, n = 58). The incidence of major vascular complications, defined per the Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 criteria, and ProGlide complications including acute femoral artery stenosis or occlusion and bleeding requiring any intervention.
Results:
The incidence of major vascular complication and ProGlide complication were significantly lower in the echo-guided group than in not echo-guided group (1.6% vs 17.2%, P < 0.002; 1.6% vs 15.5%, P = 0.003; respectively). Use of the Echo-guided ProGlide technique was independently associated with prevention of ProGlide complications (odds ratio, 0.11; 95% confidential interval, 0.01-0.76; P = 0.03).
Conclusions:
This novel Echo-guided ProGlide technique was associated with a lower rate of major vascular complications, particularly ProGlide complications during percutaneous TF-TAVI.
