Circulation On The Run

Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation On the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Dr Greg Hundley: I'm Dr Greg Hundley, also Associate Editor, the Director of the Pauley Heart Center at VCU Health in Richmond, Virginia. Dr Carolyn Lam: Say, Greg, you know the feature paper this week talks about the perennially hot topic now and that is transcatheter aortic valve replacement or TAVR or TAVI. It's actually data from the France TAVI Registry comparing balloon expandable versus self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement. I'm sure you want to hear more about it, but first I'm going to tell you about another paper in the same issue, this time also comparing a balloon expandable versus a self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve implantation, but data from a nationwide analysis and from corresponding author Dr Fauchier from Centre Hospitalier Univer