Tadashi Hoshiyama

Change in the prognostic utility of regional left ventricular longitudinal strain values in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the difference in prognostic utility of echocardiographic parameters between pre- and post-transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) periods. METHODS AND RESULTS: This study enrolled 189 patients who underwent TAVI at Kumamoto University Hospital betw...