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Transthoracic echocardiography is essential for assessing patients with severe aortic stenosis both before and after transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
This review outlines the essential transthoracic echocardiography parameters required for pre-procedural assessment and post-procedural follow-up of patients undergoing TAVI for severe aortic stenosis.
Supports TTE integration into TAVI pathways for severe AS; extends parameter guidance while leaving validation to prospective studies.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation is now accepted as a standard mode of treatment for an increasingly large population of patients with severe aortic stenosis. With the availability of this technique, echocardiographers need to be familiar with the imaging characteristics that can help to identify which patients are best suited to conventional surgery or transcatheter aortic valve implantation, and what parameters need to be measured. This review highlights the major features that should be assessed during transthoracic echocardiography before presentation of the patient to the 'Heart Team'. In addition, this review summarises the aspects to be considered on echocardiography during follow-up assessment after successful implantation of a transcatheter aortic valve.
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Fryearson et al. (2016) conducted a review in Severe aortic stenosis. Transthoracic echocardiography was evaluated. Transthoracic echocardiography is essential for assessing patients with severe aortic stenosis both before and after transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
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