Temporal Trends in Gender-Related Differences and Outcomes in Patients Who Underwent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (from the Israeli Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Multicenter Registry)

We evaluated temporal trends in gender-related differences in patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis from a multicenter TAVI registry during the years 2008 to 2016. Our final cohort included 1,159 males and 1,370 females, with a median follow-up of 2.3 (IQR 1.2, 4.4) years. For temporal trends analysis, the entire population was divided according to period of procedure: 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2016. During the 2008 to 2012 period, the rates of in-hospital aortic paravalvular leak, myocardial infarction, pacemaker implantation, and stroke were higher among men than women, but became comparable between the gender during the 2013 to 2016 period.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - October 3, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Osnat Itzhaki Ben Zadok, Ran Kornowski, Ariel Finkelstein, Israel Barbash, Haim Danenberg, Amit Segev, Victor Guetta, Amir Halkin, Hana Vaknin, David Planer, Abid Assali, Alon Barsheshet, Katia Orvin Source Type: research