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Heart Failure Readmission After Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement: Five-Year Follow-Up in the Medicare Population

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)01609-9/abstract

Author(s)

Christina M. Vassileva, Naseem Ghazanfari, John Spertus, Christian McNeely, Stephen Markwell, Stephen Hazelrigg

The authors explored readmission rates for heart failure after MV repair/replacement in the US Medicare population as a means for assessing quality. The preop heart failure rate in this population was 61%. Readmission rates were 25% at 30 days and 78% at 5 years; they were substantially higher for those with preop heart failure and were higher for those undergoing valve repair rather than valve replacement.