A handful of nonmodifiable anatomic factors could help further pinpoint patients at high risk for needing a permanent pacemaker after TAVR with the Sapien 3 valve. In a single-center study, the risk ...

We performed an outcome comparison study by reviewing the records of 214 consecutive patients undergoing AVR at Providence Hospital and Medical Center in Southfield, Michigan, between January 2001 and ...

Seventy-two patients (1.4%) required permanent pacemaker implantation. Indications for PPM implantation included: (i) complete atrioventricular (AV) block in 59; of these, 35 were immediate in onset ...