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Balloon-expandable versus self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement is the subject of this author response to a letter regarding the FRANCE-TAVI registry.
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Registry comparisons of balloon- vs self-expanding TAVR should not guide practice; leaves open need for randomized device-selection trials.
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Vincent et al. (2020) studied this question. Balloon-expandable versus self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement is the subject of this author response to a letter regarding the FRANCE-TAVI registry.
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