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Upper-extremity Approach for Secondary Access in Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Published on: August 8, 2025
Kuldeep Shah1, Zakeih Chaker2, Tatiana Busu2
1Division of Cardiology, West Virginia School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) shows better kidney outcomes than surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), with lower acute kidney injury (AKI) rates. Dialysis-requiring AKI rates were similar between TAVR and SAVR, particularly in low-intermediate risk patients.
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