Volume 88, Issue 3 pp. 476-478
Valvular and Structural Heart Diseases

The 3 S's of the Sapien balloon expandable valve

Ran Kornowski MD, FACC, FESC

Corresponding Author

Ran Kornowski MD, FACC, FESC

Department of Cardiology, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, the “Sackler” School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Correspondence to: Ran Kornowski, MD, FESC, FACC, Chairman - Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author
First published: 13 September 2016
Citations: 1

Conflict of interest: Nothing to report.

Key Points

  • The Sapien 3 (S3) balloon expandable aortic valve equipped with an outer skirt to minimize paravalvular leakage (PVL) was built upon the predecessor Sapien XT (SXT) valve.
  • There is scant comparative data of transcatheter aortic valve replacement using S3 versus SXT valve.
  • The study shows that S3 valve is associated with reduced PVL rate compared with SXT, which is an important clinical advantage.

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