@Article{Zembala2009,
journal="Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery",
issn="1731-5530",
volume="6",
number="3",
year="2009",
title="FORUM EKSPERTÓWPOL-TAVI FIRST \– Polish report on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) of Edwards-Sapien prosthesis in the first 19 high risk patients with severe aortic stenosis and comorbidities",
abstract="Patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, who from November 2008 to March 2009 were treated with Edwards-Sapien transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) within the POL-TAVI First Polish Registry, were included in the analysis. Nineteen patients aged 78\±4,8 years with high operation risk and Logistic EuroSCORE 25 \± 7.6% were reported (74% were females). In 15 (79%) patients the valve was implanted transapically (TA), in the other four (21%) \– via the femoral arterial access (TF). The valve was successfully implanted in 16 (84%) patients, in one patient aortic valvuloplasty alone was performed. During in-hospital period two patients died (one during periprocedural period and another one \– two months after the implantation). During the mean follow-up of 5 \± 1.5 months (except for one patient who is still in hospital) all patients are in NYHA class I or II. Results of the initial series of 19 TAVI patients in Poland are satisfactory, and the trial will be continued with careful medical and economical analysis.",
author="Zembala, Marian
and Wilczek, Krzysztof
and Przybylski, Roman
and Chodór, Piotr
and Nadziakiewicz, Paweł
and Krasoń, Marcin
and Sadowski, Jerzy
and Dudek, Dariusz
and Kapelak, Bogusław
and Forysz, Danuta
and Witkowski, Adam
and Demkow, Marcin
and Chmielak, Zbigniew
and Kuśmierski, Krzysztof
and Juraszyński, Zbigniew
and Bochenek, Andrzej
and Cisowski, Marek
and Trusz-Gluza, Maria
and Buszman, Paweł
and Woś, Stanisław
and Kalarus, Zbigniew
and Poloński, Lech
and Gąsior, Mariusz
and Opolski, Grzegorz
and Rużyłło, Witold",
pages="219--223",
url="https://www.termedia.pl/FORUM-EKSPERTOW-POL-TAVI-FIRST-8211-Polish-report-on-transcatheter-aortic-valve-implantation-TAVI-of-Edwards-Sapien-prosthesis-in-the-first-19-high-risk-patients-with-severe-aortic-stenosis-and-comorb,40,13152,1,1.html"
}