Lessons Learned from Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty Experience from the Pre‐transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Era

Abstract

BAV can be used successfully to clinically improve the health of some nonsurgical patients with severe symptomatic AS, and a proportion of these patients improve to a point where AVR can be performed. Bridging to TAVI will provide further options to high-risk patients who cannot be bridged to conventional AVR. The role of BAV in bridging to TAVI merits further study.