AHA 2019: French Registry Data Favor Edwards’ Sapien TAVR Over Medtronic’s CoreValve

The study’s authors say head-to-head randomized trials of the latest transcatheter aortic valves are urgently needed

Registry data from France shows transcatheter aortic valve replacement patients have better outcomes with Edwards’ Sapien balloon-expandable valves than with Medtronic’s CoreValve self-expanding valves.

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Two analyses of French registry data showed the urgent need for a head-to-head randomized trial of the newest transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) systems, according to the studies’ authors.

A matched-propensity analysis of 12,141 patients in the

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