Aortic Valve Disease

Transcatheter valve implantation for aortic stenosis is an important cardiologic research topic. The department of Cardiology of the Antwerp University Hospital is a pioneer in this type of percutaneous treatment modalities of human structural heart disease. Clinical research is performed on:

1. optimisation of interventional implantation strategies;
2. optimisation of clinical and technical patient selection;
3. evaluation of different imaging modalities for optimal technical patient selection and aortic root imaging;
4. pathogenesis of the major complications of  the technique, that is conduction disturbances and aortic valve regurgitation;
5. long term follow up and monitoring of newly implanted devices;
6. optimisation and evaluation of newly developed devices.

Clinical research is performed both single centre and multicentre, and at the national and international level.