Journal article
Surgical Risk Scoring in TAVR: Still Needed? A Metaregression Analysis
Abstract
Several randomized controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) against surgical aortic valve replacement have been published to date. The fact that higher risk populations were implemented first does not necessarily mean that they benefit more from a TAVR procedure. We performed meta-analysis of the 8 randomized clinical trials performing TAVR for both mortality and stroke outcomes. …
Authors
Baro R; Cura F; Belardi J; Brugaletta S; Lamelas P
Journal
Current Problems in Cardiology, Vol. 46, No. 12,
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2021
DOI
10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2021.100875
ISSN
0146-2806