TY - JOUR AU - Berkovitch, Anat AU - Barbash, Israel M. PY - 2017 TI - The gender paradox in TAVR JF - Annals of Translational Medicine; Vol 5, No 16 (August 11, 2017): Annals of Translational Medicine Y2 - 2017 KW - N2 - In the era prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), several studies have suggested that women have been less frequently referred to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) due to various reasons (1). At age younger than 65 years, gender does not seem to play a major role in referral to SAVR. However, among octogenarians and nonagenarians, women were unequally denied of SAVR (2). In the TAVR era things have changed, in most TAVR studies, female patients are equally represented (3,4). UR - https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/14751