Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation at Hospitals Without On-Site Cardiac Surgery (TAVI at Home): A Multicenter Prospective Interventional Study.

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become the standard of care for elderly patients with aortic stenosis. International guidelines recommend that TAVI should be performed only in centers with on-site cardiac surgery (CS). However, rapidly evolving TAVI technology and increasing operator expertise have significantly reduced peri-procedural complications, including those requiring rescue surgery, which occur in less than 0.