Urgent transcatheter aortic valve implantation in an all-comer population: a single-centre experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When compared with older reports of untreated symptomatic aortic valve stenosis (AoS), urgent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (u-TAVI) seems to improve mortality rates. We performed a single centre, retrospective cohort analysis to characterize our u-TAVI population and to identify potential predictors of worse outcomes.

Methods

We performed a retrospective analysis of 631 consecutive TAVI patients between 2013 and 2018. Of these patients, 53 were categorized as u-TAVI. Data was collected from the local electronic database.

Results

Urgent patients had more often a severely decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF < 30%) and increased creatinine levels (115.5 [88-147] vs 94.5 [78-116] mmol/l; p = 0.001). Urgent patients were hospitalised fo

SUBMITTER: Lux A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8603591 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature