In collaboration with the Course Directors of the PCR Valves e-Course, this issue focuses on VHD with expert perspectives on the Heart Team; the state of PCR Planet today; the COVID pandemic’s impact on cardiovascular clinical trials; the state of the art in mitral valve leaflet repair; PASCAL, a new mitral valve repair device; gender-related outcomes in TAVI and SAVR from the SURTAVI trial, the effect of transcarotid or transaxillary access sites on TAVI outcomes; the FORWARD PRO clinical study of the EVOLUT Pro repositionable valve and more…
                 
                                                            
                                                            Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
        
        Transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair with the PASCAL system: early results from a real-world series
    
    Besler C, Noack T, von Roeder M, Kitamura M, Kresoja K, Flo Forner A, Bevilacqua C, Desch S, Ender J, Borger MA, Thiele H, Lurz P
        10.4244/EIJ-D-20-00216
        
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        Clinical outcomes of TAVI or SAVR in men and women with aortic stenosis at intermediate operative risk: a post hoc analysis of the randomised SURTAVI trial
    
    Van Mieghem NM, Reardon MJ, Yakubov S, Heiser J, Merhi W, Windecker S, Makkar R, Cheng W, Robbins M, Fail P, Feinberg E, Stoler R, Hebeler R, Serruys PW, Popma J
        10.4244/EIJ-D-20-00303
        
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        Transaxillary compared with transcarotid access for TAVR: a propensity-matched comparison from a French multicentre registry
    
    Debry N, Trimech T, Gandet T, Vincent F, Hysi I, Delhaye C, Cayla G, Koussa M, Juthier F, Leclercq F, Pécheux M, Ghostine S, Labreuche J, Modine T, Van Belle E
        10.4244/EIJ-D-20-00117
        
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        Thirty-day clinical outcomes of the Evolut PRO self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve: the international FORWARD PRO study
    
    Manoharan G, Grube E, Van Mieghem NM, Brecker S, Fiorina C, Kornowski R, Danenberg H, Ruge H, Thiele H, Lancellotti P, Søndergaard L, Tamburino C, Oh J, Fan Y, Windecker S
        10.4244/EIJ-D-20-00279
        
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