The heart team, TAVI and natural selection
Date
2016
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Publisher
South African Heart Association
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The announcement in 2002 that Alan Cribier had performed the first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) ranked right up there with the announcement that the first heart transplant had been performed by Chris Barnard, or the announcement that Andreas Gruentzig had performed the first coronary angioplasty. At the time we rightly viewed this as an exciting breakthrough in the management of patients with aortic stenosis and had little reason to anticipate that perhaps the major challenge for TAVI still lay ahead.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar
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CITATION: Doubell, A. 2016. The heart team, TAVI and natural selection. SA Heart, 13(4):286-288, doi:10.24170/13-4-1581.
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The original publication is available at http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/SAHJ
Keywords
Heart -- Transplantation -- Patients, Aortic valve -- Implantation, Cardiac surgery, Heart valve prosthesis, Heart surgeons
Citation
Doubell, A. 2016. The heart team, TAVI and natural selection. SA Heart, 13(4):286-288, doi:10.24170/13-4-1581