Impact of Embolic Protection Device Placed During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation on Postdischarge Stroke Prevention

We extracted data from the Nationwide Readmission Database (NRD) from 2016 to 2018. We identified 165,100 index patients who underwent tanscatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) using International Classification of Disease-10-Procedural Codes (ICD-10-PCS) 02RF3x, X2RF332, and X2RF432. We used ICD-10-PCS code X2A5312 to identify 3,672 patients who had concurrent utilization of embolic protection device (EPD). We excluded patients with ages
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research