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Temporal Trends in Quality of Life Outcomes After Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Submitted by

Ruben Osnabrugge

Source

Source Name: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

Source URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Temporal%20Trends%20in%20Quality%20of%2…

Author(s)

Gada H, Kirtane AJ, Wang K, Lei Y, Magnuson E, Reynolds MR, Williams MR, Kodali S, Vahl TP, Arnold SV, Leon MB, Thourani V, Szeto WY, Cohen DJ

The authors of this study aimed to compare the quality of life (QoL) after Transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TA-TAVR) versus surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). They used the QoL data of 875 TA-TAVR patients from the PARTNER nonrandomized continued acces registry and compared this with the smaller randomized group of TA-TAVI and SAVR patients. They found that despite more experience in this continued access population, QoL was similar to randomized TA-TAVR patients and SAVR patients.