Echocardiographic and angiographic assessment of paravalvular regurgitation after TAVI: optimizing inter-technique reproducibility

Conclusions
Agreement between angiography and TTE (using the VARC-II criteria) in the grading of post-TAVI AR is modest, and this might have contributed to the inconsistency of data on the rate and fate of paravalvular AR. Inter-technique reproducibility can be improved using a combination of CD and hemodynamic parameters.

Source: European Journal of Echocardiography - July 20, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Abdelghani, M., Tateishi, H., Spitzer, E., Tijssen, J. G., de Winter, R. J., Soliman, O. I. I., Hahn, R. T., Serruys, P. W. Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research