Table 4.

Percentage of chosen prostheses of particular sizes from different vendors based on vendors’ sizing recommendations

	Mean diameter		Circumference-derived diameter
Prosthesis size	Min (%)	Max (%)	Min (%)	Max (%)
Edwards Sapien valve
20 mm	0	0	0	0
23 mm	11	0	11	0
26 mm	38	23	44	20
29 mm	22	31	17	27
23/26 mm	14	5	9	5
26/29 mm	16	20	17	22
Not matched	0	20	2	27
CoreValve
23 mm	2	0	6	0
26 mm	39	14	45	20
29 mm	50	50	44	56
31 mm	0	19	5	3
23/26 mm	2	0	3	0
26/29 mm	2	0	0	0
29/31 mm	6	17	2	17
Not matched	0	0	0	0
JenaValve
23 mm	33	16	39	16
25 mm	30	31	41	45
27 mm	27	14	5	31
Not matched	11	19	16	8

Theoretical selection based on mean diameter and circumference-derived diameter—the largest of the commonly used dimensions in our study population