Inter- and Intra-site Variability of Mortality and Stroke for Sites Performing both Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Valve Stenosis in Intermediate-risk Patients

Multi-site procedure-based randomized trials may be confounded by performance variability and variability among sites. Therefore, we studied variability in mortality and stroke after patients were randomized to surgical (SAVR) or transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in PARTNER-2A.

Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - June 14, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Kevin L. Greason, Eugene H. Blackstone, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Ashley M. Lowry, Lars G. Svensson, John G. Webb, E.Murat Tuzcu, Craig R. Smith, Raj R. Makkar, Michael J. Mack, Vinod H. Thourani, Susheel K. Kodali, Martin B. Leon, D.Craig Miller Source Type: research