Shifting the Balance Between Aortic Insufficiency and Residual Gradients After Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty

Since its introduction in the mid-1980s ([1][1]), transcatheter therapy has replaced cardiothoracic surgery as the preferred treatment modality in the majority of patients with congenital valvular aortic stenosis. In 1990, a group from Children's Hospital Boston wrote an editorial in this...