Research Article
Does Aortic Arch Anatomy Affect Stroke Laterality in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation?
| | Patient characteristics | Right-sided stroke n = 26 | Left-sided stroke n = 51 | value |
| | Intraoperative characteristics | | Predilatation, n (%) | 14 (53.8) | 29 (56.9) | 0.831 | | Postdilatation, n (%) | 5 (19.2) | 15 (29.4) | 0.417 | | Self-expandable valve, n (%) | 19 (73.1) | 27 (52.9) | 0.140 | | Balloon-expandable valve, n (%)# | 7 (26.9) | 24 (47.1) | 0.140 | | Valve embolization, n (%) | 1 (3.8) | 5 (9.8) | 0.657 |
| | Access route, n (%) | | (i) Transfemoral | 23 (88.5) | 42 (82.4) | 0.741 | | (ii) Transaortal | 1 (3.8) | 3 (5.9) | 1.000 | | (iii) Transapical | 2 (7.7) | 5 (9.8) | 1.000 | | (iv) Subclavian | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.0) | 1.000 |
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Transcatheter heart valves used: n = 21 Medtronic CoreValve, n = 9 Medtronic Evolut R, n = 5 Medtronic Evolut PRO, n = 4 JenaValve, n = 4 Boston Scientific LOTUS, and n = 2 Symetis ACURATE neo; #transcatheter heart valves used: n = 5 Edwards Sapien XT, n = 13 Edwards Sapien 3, and n = 14 Edwards Sapien ultra. |
