Evaluating Reference Ages for Selecting Prosthesis Types for Heart Valve Replacement in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although a patient's age may be the only objective figure that can be used as a reference indicator in selecting the type of prosthesis in heart valve surgery, different clinical guidelines use different age criteria.

Objective

To explore the age-associated survival-hazard functions associated with prosthesis type in aortic valve replacement (AVR) and mitral valve replacement (MVR).

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study compared the long-term outcomes associated with mechanical and biologic prostheses in AVR and MVR according to recipient's age using a nationwide administrative data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service. To reduce the potential treatment-selection bias between mechanical and biologic prostheses, the inverse-probabi

SUBMITTER: Park SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10203891 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature