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Upper-extremity Approach for Secondary Access in Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Published on: August 8, 2025
Tuncay Kiris1, Fatma Esin1, Hakan Bozkurt1
1Department of Cardiology, Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir 35360, Turkey.
Local anesthesia and conscious sedation showed better early survival for transfemoral TAVI patients compared to general anesthesia. However, after adjusting for patient risk factors, anesthesia type did not independently impact mortality or major adverse cardiovascular events.
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