Procedural and thirty-day outcomes following transfemoral implantation of the fully repositionable and retrievable Lotus valve without routine pre-dilatation in a consecutive patient cohort: a single-center experience

The use of the Lotus valve as a 'workhorse' device without routine pre-dilatation is safe and efficacious and is associated with a very low incidence of residual aortic regurgitation and acceptable transvalvular haemodynamics.