EuroPCR: SOURCE Registry one-year mortality rates inform TAVI operators
Slideshow | The SOURCE Family of Registries: 1 Year Results from Cohort 1 of the SOURCE Registry
The European Registry of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation using the Edwards SAPIEN Valve

Martyn Thomas, MD, director of cardiothoracic services, Guys and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, reported Tuesday on the one-year mortality rates with transcatheter heart valve implantations with the Sapien valve (Edwards Lifesciences) using either a transfemoral or transapical approach, based on results of 1,038 high-risk patients assessed in the SOURCE Registry at EuroPCR in Paris.

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