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Table 1 Abbreviations

Abbreviation	Definition
AF	Atrial fibrillation
aOR	Adjusted odds ratio
AR	Aortic regurgitation
AKI	Acute kidney injury
AMSTAR-2	Assessing the Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews 2
AI	Aortic insufficiency
ASE	American Society of Echocardiography
BE	Balloon expandable
CI	Confidence interval
CMR	Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging
COPD	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
EGDs	Early generation devices
ES	Effect size
GRADE	Grading of recommendations assessment, development, and evaluation
HR	Hazard ratio
LOS	Length of hospital stay
LVEDd	left ventricle end-diastole dimension
LVESd	left ventricle end-systole dimension
LV	Left ventricular
LVEF	Left ventricular ejection fraction
I²	Inconsistency test
KCCQ	Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire
MACCE	Major adverse composite cardiac events
MI	Myocardial infarction
MR	Mitral regurgitation
MD	Mean difference
NACE	Net adverse clinical events
NA	Not available
NGDs	New generation devices
NRD	Nationwide readmissions database
PPM	Permanent pacemaker
PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
PVL	Paravalvular leak
RR	Risk ratio
SAVR	Surgical aortic valve replacement
SE	Self-expandable
SMD	Standardised mean difference
STS-PROM	Society of Thoracic Surgeons Predicted Risk of Mortality
TAVI	Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
TAVR	Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
TA	Transapical
TF	Transfemoral
THV	Transcatheter heart valve
TIA	Transient ischemic attack
TR	Tricuspid regurgitation
VARC	Valve Academic Research Consortium

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