When Culture Dictates Practice: Adoption of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with a higher risk of neurological events for both the transfemoral (TF) and the transapical (TA) approach than surgical valve replacement. Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging revealed even more new, albeit clinically silent lesions from procedural embolization.