Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis

Philippe Généreux¹, Allan Schwartz¹, J Bradley Oldemeyer¹+27

• ¹From Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ (P.G.); Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital (A.S., R.T.H., M.B.L.), the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (D.J.C., R.T.H., B.R., M.B.L.), and Weill Cornell Medicine (B.R.), New York, and St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, Roslyn (D.J.C.) - all in New York; University of Colorado Health, Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland (J.B.O.); Laval University, Quebec, QC (P.P.), St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (P.B., J.L.), and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON (T.S.) - all in Canada; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (B.R.L., K.G.); Emory University, Atlanta (V.B.); the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford (W.F.F.), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto (W.F.F.), California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco (D.V.D.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (R.R.M.), and Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine (H.P., Y.Z.) - all in California; Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO (A.K.C.); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School (C.K.) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (P.S.) - both in Boston; Pinnacle Health Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA (H.G.); Baylor Scott and White The Heart Hospital Plano, Plano, TX (M.S., M.M.); CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center, St. Cloud, MN (T.D.); Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit (W.O.); Northwestern University, Chicago (C.J.D.); Gothenburg University/Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden (B.R.); and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (S.J.P.).