The study, published online in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, found that only 3.3 percent of “high surgical risk” patients undergoing TAVI under local anesthesia had to be converted to general anesthesia. The conversions were due to complications with the valve procedure rather than with IV sedation or because of an uncooperative patient, said study author Hélène Eltchaninoff, MD.
The “simplified percutaneous approach using local anesthesia has become more popular because it offers multiple advantages in an elderly and fragile population,” the report said.
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