Pacemaker Dependency after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Incidence, Predictors and Long-term outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Among patients receiving PPI after TAVI, PM dependency rates were about 33-36% at 1-year. Patients with a baseline RBBB undergoing PPI at day 0 or at day 1 when severe CDs persisted for 24 hours after TAVI, irrespectively from baseline CDs, had higher chances to be PM dependent at follow-ups. Finally, PPI after TAVI was associated with increased 6-year mortality. PMID: 31217147 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: EuroIntervention - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Tags: EuroIntervention Source Type: research