This document summarizes the results of the German Aortic Valve Registry (GARY) which collected data on 13,860 patients undergoing either conventional surgery or catheter-based procedures for aortic valve disease in 2011. The registry included data on 6,523 patients who underwent conventional aortic valve replacement without coronary bypass surgery (AVR), 3,464 who underwent AVR with coronary bypass surgery (AVR+CABG), 2,695 who underwent transvascular catheter-based aortic valve implantation (TAVI), and 1,181 who underwent transapical TAVI. Patients who underwent catheter-based procedures were significantly older and had higher risk profiles. The in-hospital stroke rates were low across all groups. In-