Does severe right ventricular dysfunction limit the expected benefit of TAVI in high-risk patients?
Severe right ventricular dysfunction is a strong predictor of outcomes in high-risk TAVI patients and should be incorporated into pre-procedural risk assessment.
Severe RVdy limits the expected benefit of TAVI. In current risk scores right heart failure is not considered. The present study advocates the evaluation of this strong predictor in a more complete pre-procedural work-up.
Testa et al. (Thu,) studied this question.