This review highlights the central role of echocardiography in patient selection, procedural guidance, and complication detection during TAVI.
Echocardiography remains key for TAVI workflows; leaves open prospective trials quantifying outcome impact.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) provides an effective, less-invasive alternative treatment for patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis at high surgical risk. Echocardiography plays a central role in patient selection, procedural guidance, and evaluation, and in the detection of complications. This review describes the peri-interventional role of echocardiography during TAVI, outlines current limitations, and identifies future implications.
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