Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Pure Native Aortic Regurgitation

CONCLUSIONS: In Medicare patients with pure native AR, TAVR with the current commercially available transcatheter valves has comparable short-term outcomes. Although long-term outcomes were inferior to SAVR, the possibility of residual confounding, biasing long-term outcomes, given older and frailer TAVR patients, cannot be excluded.PMID:36967709 | DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.09.016

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - March 27, 2023 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Amgad Mentias Marwan Saad Venu Menon Grant W Reed Zoran Popovic Douglas Johnston Leonardo Rodriguez Marc Gillinov Brian Griffin Hani Jneid Sidakpal Panaich Samir Kapadia Lars G Svensson Milind Y Desai Source Type: research