Curtiss T Stinis, Amr E Abbas, Paul Teirstein, Raj R Makkar, Christine J Chung, Vijay Iyer, Philippe Généreux, Robert M Kipperman, John K Harrison, G Chad Hughes, Jefferson M Lyons, Ayaz Rahman, Nikolaos Kakouros, Jennifer Walker, David K Roberts, Pei-Hsiu Huang, Biswajit Kar, Abhijeet Dhoble, Daniel P Logsdon, Puneet K Khanna, Joseph Aragon, James M McCabe
BACKGROUND: The fifth-generation SAPIEN 3 Ultra Resilia valve (S3UR) incorporates several design changes as compared with its predecessors, the SAPIEN 3 (S3) and SAPIEN 3 Ultra (S3U) valves, including bovine leaflets treated with a novel process intended to reduce structural valve deterioration via calcification, as well as a taller external skirt on the 29-mm valve size to reduce paravalvular leak (PVL). The clinical performance of S3UR compared with S3 and S3U in a large patient population has not been previously reported...
February 29, 2024: JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions