Morphological characteristics of severe aortic stenosis in China: Imaging corelab observations from the first Chinese transcatheter aortic valve trial

Abstract

Patients presenting for TAVR in China have a very high frequency of bicuspid valve morphology. Even in tricuspid disease, there are clear differences to Western patients, with a high calcium burden, which presents challenges for TAVR in this population (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01683474).