TCT 2015: More TAVR Results, Super-Thin Strut Stents, And Percutaneous Heart Pumps
Executive Summary
Clinical trials of transcatheter aortic valve technologies once again dominated news coming out of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, held this year in San Francisco, October 10–15. But the meeting also featured new coronary stent technologies and new information on percutaneous heart pumps to support patients during difficult interventions.
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