Corrado Tamburino • Gian Paolo Ussia

2012

At the time of publication of this handbook, percutaneous treatment of left side cardiac valves represented just an exciting and promising opportunity. The lack of outcome data at medium and long term, however, required some caution, since there were still too many unknowns related to a minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart disease, including durability of acute results, long-term impact of procedural complications, patient selection and so on.