Cribier and colleagues: first human transcatheter aortic-valve implantation

What changed

Technical feasibility of catheter-based aortic valve implantation was shown in one patient.

Scientific scope

Exact ten-author 2002 case; later trials, devices and general efficacy excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 2002 first-human case report. Preclinical device development, later transfemoral procedures, randomized trials, device generations, surgical comparison and broad clinical adoption remain separate.

Contributors

• The named authors listed in the linked research record · SCIENCE: Complete source byline retained in the research record; this collective display does not merge person identities or measure labor shares.

• PubMed record for first human transcatheter aortic-valve implantation
• Crossref record for first human TAVI report

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