Lessons Learned From the German Aortic Valve Registry

Over the years, 97 participating sites have prospectively enrolled >150,000 patients who gave consent to be followed (Figure 1). [...]GARY constitutes the largest dataset of aortic valve interventions worldwide, and it is the only registry that represents the complete spectrum of aortic disease and interventions. [...]far, transvalvular gradients and aortic valve areas seem to be rather favorable, and at this stage, there is no valid evidence that TAVR valves are less durable than SAVR valves; however, this issue needs to be settled in the coming years. [...]since January 2018, the focus of GARY has been to collect data on long-term durability of SAVR and TAVR valves. [...]government authorities also pay more attention to this kind of data collection and have started to provide support for this type of research.