Impact Of Moderate Preoperative Chronic Kidney Disease On Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Preoperative chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been found as an important determinant of clinical outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) [1]. In a recent meta-analysis including 4992 TAVI patients, we demonstrated that CKD (stages 3-5) significantly increases early (30-day) and 1-year all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, early stroke, acute kidney injury (AKI and AKI stages 2-3), need for dialysis, and length of hospitalization [1]. Intriguingly, even moderate CKD (stage 3) was found to be associated to worse outcomes after TAVI, in opposition to previous studies [2,3].
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research