Procedural Success in Transaxillary Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation According to Type of Transcatheter Heart Valve: Results from the Multicenter TAXI Registry

Background: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established therapy. To maintain transvascular access in patients not eligible for the transfemoral approach, transaxillary (TAx)-TAVI is increasingly performed. The multicenter retrospective observational TAXI (Trans-AXillary Intervention) international registry showed that percutaneous axillary access is superior to surgical access in TAx-TAVI. In this subanalysis of the TAXI registry, we aimed to compare procedural success in TAx-TAVI according to different types of transcatheter heart valves (THV) with a special emphasis on anatomical conditions.