Transcatheter Aortic Valve Intervention-Live Transmission

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Intervention-Live Transmission (VERITAS)Study

The primary objective of this clinical trial is to evaluate safety of patients who underwent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Intervention (TAVI) during a live case or video-taped transmission as compared to those without procedure transmission.

A series of sites from outside the US, where the Edwards-Sapien and CoreValve devices are approved for commercial sale and implantation, will be recruited to retrospectively identify and extract in-hospital data of a patient who underwent TAVI during a live or video-taped procedure and a matched patient who underwent TAVI without transmission of the procedure.

Cases Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects > 18 years of age, male or female
• Subject had live case or video-taped transmission of TAVI procedure with:

Edwards-Sapien transfemoral approach, Edwards-Sapien transapical approach, or CoreValve transfemoral approach

Controls Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects > 18 years of age, male or female
• Subject underwent TAVI without procedure transmission and had:

Edwards-Sapien transfemoral approach, Edwards-Sapien transapical approach, or CoreValve transfemoral approach

• Subjects will be matched to Cases upon the following:
• STS SCORE +/- 2points
• Date of TAVI procedure +/- 4weeks
• The first attending for the TAVI procedure
• Access site for TAVI