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  1. Outcomes of SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Compared With Surgical Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, July 2023, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  2. Minimum Core Data Elements for Transcatheter Mitral Therapies

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, June 2023, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  3. Ventricular Remodeling and Outcomes After Mitral Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair in Heart Failure

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, May 2023, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  4. Cardiac Damage and Quality of Life After Aortic Valve Replacement in the PARTNER Trials

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February 2023, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  5. Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in lower-risk and higher-risk patients: a meta-analysis of randomized trials

    Article • European Heart Journal, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  6. Severity of and Recovery From Anemia After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: An Analysis of the PARTNER Trials and Registries

    Article • Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, January 2023, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  7. Minimally Invasive Versus Full Sternotomy for Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients

    Article • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, December 2022, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  8. Association Between Early Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Improvement After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and 5-Year Clinical Outcomes

    Article • JAMA Cardiology, September 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Maria Alu

  9. Impact of Right Ventricle-Pulmonary Artery Coupling on Clinical Outcomes in the PARTNER 3 Trial

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, September 2022, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  10. Evolution and Prognostic Impact of Cardiac Damage After Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, August 2022, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  11. Minimum Core Data Elements for Evaluation of TAVR

    Article • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 2022, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  12. Minimum Core Data Elements for Evaluation of TAVR

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, April 2022, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  13. Characteristics and clinical outcomes in patients with prior chest radiation undergoing TAVR: Observations from PARTNER‐2

    Article • Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, March 2022, Wiley

    Maria Alu

  14. Impact of Frailty and Prefrailty on Outcomes of Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions, January 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  15. Paravalvular regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement in intermediate-risk patients: a pooled PARTNER 2 study

    Article • EuroIntervention, January 2022, Europa Digital & Publishing

    Maria Alu

  16. Time-of-Day and Clinical Outcomes After Surgical or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the PARTNER Trials

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, January 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  17. Right Ventricular–Pulmonary Arterial Coupling in Patients With HF Secondary MR

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, October 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  18. Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain as a Predictor of Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure with Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: The COAPT Trial

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, September 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  19. Impact of Flow on Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Following Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, August 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  20. Relation between Modified Body Mass Index and Adverse Outcomes after Aortic Valve Implantation

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, August 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  21. Impact of Predilation During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights From the PARTNER 3 Trial

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions, July 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  22. Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter Following Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, July 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  23. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Aortic Valve Replacement in the PARTNER 2 Trial and Registry

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, July 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  24. Atrial Fibrillation and Outcomes After Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (from the PARTNER 3 Trial)

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, June 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  25. Valve Academic Research Consortium 3: Updated Endpoint Definitions for Aortic Valve Clinical Research

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, June 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  26. Valve Academic Research Consortium 3: updated endpoint definitions for aortic valve clinical research

    Article • European Heart Journal, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  27. Outcomes 2 Years After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients at Low Surgical Risk

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  28. A neural system dynamics modeling platform and its applications in randomized controlled trial data analysis

    Article • Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, January 2021, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  29. Diastolic Function and Clinical Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  30. Association of Natriuretic Peptide Levels After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With Subsequent Clinical Outcomes

    Article • JAMA Cardiology, October 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Maria Alu

  31. Structural Deterioration of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Bioprostheses in the PARTNER-2 Trial

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  32. Impact of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement on Severity of Chronic Kidney Disease

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  33. Outcome of Flow-Gradient Patterns of Aortic Stenosis After Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions, July 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  34. Prognostic implications of baseline 6‐min walk test performance in intermediate risk patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement

    Article • Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, June 2020, Wiley

    Maria Alu

  35. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Clinical Outcomes Over 5 Years After TAVR

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, June 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  36. Impact of recent heart failure hospitalization on clinical outcomes in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: an analysis from the PARTNER 2 trial and registries

    Article • European Journal of Heart Failure, May 2020, Wiley

    Maria Alu

  37. Echocardiographic Results of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients

    Article • Circulation, May 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  38. Regression of Left Ventricular Mass After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  39. Mitral regurgitation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation for degenerated surgical aortic bioprosthesis: Insights from PARTNER 2 Valve‐in‐Valve Registry

    Article • Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, March 2020, Wiley

    Maria Alu

  40. Five-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, February 2020, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Maria Alu

  41. Low and elevated B-type natriuretic peptide levels are associated with increased mortality in patients with preserved ejection fraction undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: an analysis of the PARTNER II trial and registry

    Article • European Heart Journal, December 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  42. Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis After TAVR and SAVR

    Article • Circulation, December 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  43. Health Status After Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients With Aortic Stenosis

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  44. Impact of renin–angiotensin system inhibitors on clinical outcomes in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: an analysis of from the PARTNER 2 trial and registries

    Article • European Heart Journal, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  45. Anticoagulation After Surgical or Transcatheter Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  46. Antithrombotic Therapy and Cardiovascular Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, August 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  47. Effect of Baseline Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction on 2-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Circulation Heart Failure, August 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Maria Alu

  48. 3-Year Outcomes After Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Degenerated Bioprostheses

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, June 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  49. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Balloon-Expandable Valve in Low-Risk Patients

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, May 2019, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Maria Alu

  50. New-onset left bundle branch block after transcatheter aortic valve replacement is associated with adverse long-term clinical outcomes in intermediate-risk patients: an analysis from the PARTNER II trial

    Article • European Heart Journal, April 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  51. Impact of Short-Term Complications on Mortality and Quality of Life After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, February 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  52. Implications of Left Ventricular Geometry in Low-Flow Aortic Stenosis

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, February 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  53. How Cox models react to a study-specific confounder in a patient-level pooled dataset: random effects better cope with an imbalanced covariate across trials unless baseline hazards differ

    Article • Journal of Applied Statistics, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Alu

  54. Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Prior Cardiac Surgery in the Randomized PARTNER 2A Trial

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, November 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  55. Outcomes of Patients with Significant Obesity Undergoing TAVR or SAVR in the Randomized PARTNER 2A Trial

    Article • Structural Heart, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Philippe Pibarot, Maria Alu, Raj R Makkar, Dr Susheel Kodali

  56. Impact of Resting Heart Rate at 30 Days Following Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Insights from The PARTNER 2 Trial

    Article • Structural Heart, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Raj R Makkar, Dr Susheel Kodali, Maria Alu

  57. Debris Heterogeneity Across Different Valve Types Captured by a Cerebral Protection System During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, July 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  58. The incidence and prognostic implications of worsening right ventricular function after surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement: insights from PARTNER IIA

    Article • European Heart Journal, May 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  59. Outcomes in 937 Intermediate-Risk Patients Undergoing Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in PARTNER-2A

    Article • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  60. Sex-Specific Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With the SAPIEN 3 Valve

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, January 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  61. Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Is Associated With Increased Cardiac Mortality in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, December 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  62. Association of Paravalvular Regurgitation With 1-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With the SAPIEN 3 Valve

    Article • JAMA Cardiology, November 2017, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Maria Alu

  63. Longitudinal Hemodynamics of Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valves in the PARTNER Trial

    Article • JAMA Cardiology, November 2017, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Maria Alu

  64. CT-Defined Prosthesis–Patient Mismatch Downgrades Frequency and Severity, and Demonstrates No Association With Adverse Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, August 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  65. Staging classification of aortic stenosis based on the extent of cardiac damage

    Article • European Heart Journal, July 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Alu

  66. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Within Degenerated Aortic Surgical Bioprostheses

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  67. Protection Against Cerebral Embolism During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  68. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement versus surgical valve replacement in intermediate-risk patients: a propensity score analysis

    Article • The Lancet, May 2016, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  69. Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, April 2016, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Maria Alu

  70. Relation of Frailty to Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (from the PARTNER Trial)

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  71. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement and standard therapy in inoperable patients with aortic stenosis and low EF

    Article • Heart, January 2015, BMJ

    Maria Alu

  72. Outcomes of Patients With Chronic Lung Disease and Severe Aortic Stenosis Treated With Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement or Standard Therapy

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  73. Cessation of dual antiplatelet treatment and cardiac events after percutaneous coronary intervention (PARIS): 2 year results from a prospective observational study

    Article • The Lancet, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Philippe Gabriel STEG, Maria Alu

  74. Relation Between Six-Minute Walk Test Performance and Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (from the PARTNER Trial)

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, September 2013, Elsevier

    Maria Alu

  75. Paravalvular Leak After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Maria Alu