Frailty and related outcomes in patients undergoing transcatheter valve therapies in a nationwide cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We sought to identify the prevalence and related outcomes of frail individuals undergoing transcatheter mitral valve repair and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Methods and results

Patients aged 65 and older were included in the study if they had at least one procedural code for transcatheter mitral valve repair or TAVR between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016 in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Provider and Review database. The Hospital Frailty Risk Score, an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) claims-based score, was used to identify frailty and the primary outcome was all-cause 1-year mortality. A total of 3746 (11.6%) patients underwent transcatheter mitral valve repair and 28 531 (88.4%) underwen

SUBMITTER: Kundi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6626614 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature