“…Oddly, these crucial data are not making headlines, relegated to footnotes, and dangerously obscured from the medical community. 2,12,13 The trade-off between the less invasive with early hospital discharge, but the higher cost and lower long-term survival with TAVI, and the need for sternotomy and longer hospital stay, but with lower cost and longer survival with SAVR should be an integral part of the Heart Team discussion and the tailored recommendation for individual patients, many of whom fall outside the RCT inclusion criteria.…”