Nurse-led sedation for transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation seems safe for a selected patient population.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become a high-volume procedure with increasing demands on hospital resources. Local anaesthesia with sedation supervised by an anaesthesiology team is the current standard of care. We aimed to describe our experience with a simplified, nurse-led sedation (NLS) protocol.

Intravascular haemolysis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation with self-expandable prosthesis: incidence, severity, and impact on long-term mortality.

We aimed to determine the incidence, severity, and long-term impact of intravascular haemolysis after self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). We believe this should be evaluated before extending the indications of TAVI to younger low-risk patients. Prospective, academic, single centre study of 94 consecutive patients treated with supra-annular self-expandable TAVI prosthesis between April 2009 and January 2014.