University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2018
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Description:
Background: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become an adequate treatment option for patients with an increased surgical risk. With further improvements the procedure expands towards younger and lower risk patients. However, the most common complication of the procedure is the occurrence of conduction disturbances leading to the need for permanent pacemaker implantation (PMI). There have been studies trying to identify predictors for conduction disturbances and PMI, which were usually obtained in highly selected patient groups, partially with contradictory results and thus...