TCT 2015 ROUND UP: More Transcatheter Aortic Valve Results, Super-Thin Strut Stents, and Percutaneous Heart Pumps
This article was originally published in Clinica
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, Oct. 10-15. But the meeting also featured new coronary stent technologies and new information on percuataneous heart pumps to support patients during difficult interventions.
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