Luise Gaede1, Johannes Blumenstein1, Won-Keun Kim2, Christoph Liebetrau2, Oliver Dörr3, Holger Nef3, Christian Hamm2,3, Albrecht Elsässer4, Helge Möllmann5. 1. Department of Internal Medicine, St. Johannes-Hospital, Johannesstrasse 9-13, 44137, Dortmund, Germany. 2. Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany. 3. Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical Clinic I, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany. 4. Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany. 5. Department of Internal Medicine, St. Johannes-Hospital, Johannesstrasse 9-13, 44137, Dortmund, Germany. moellmann@me.com.
Abstract
AIMS: We analysed the number of procedures, indications, and in-hospital mortality rates of all patients undergoing isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (sAVR) or transvascular (TV-) and transapical (TA-) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) from 2012 to 2015 in Germany. METHODS AND RESULTS: More than 31,000 aortic valve procedures were performed in 2015 in Germany, representing a total increase of 4.5% over 2014. TV-TAVI accounts for 13,108 of these procedures, with an increase of 21%, whereas the numbers of isolated sAVR and TA-TAVI decreased slightly. Age, frailty, high risk, and patients' choice were the main reasons for a catheter-based intervention. In 2015, the in-hospital mortality rate after TV-TAVI decreased to 3.4%, approaching that of sAVR (2.9%), despite a considerably higher baseline risk. A stratified analysis according to the German aortic valve (AKL) score demonstrated a further decrease of the in-hospital mortality for TV-TAVI, showing a lower in-hospital mortality rate than expected in all risk groups. Importantly, this also accounts for the lowest risk group with an AKL score <3% showing an in-hospital mortality rate of 1.7%, which is now comparable to that of sAVR (1.5%). In all other risk groups, the in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing TV-TAVI was lower than in patients undergoing sAVR. CONCLUSIONS: Mortality after TV-TAVI keeps decreasing over the last years and equals that of SAVR in the lowest risk cohort in the meanwhile. All TV-TAVI patients have significantly lower observed than expected mortality, which will further lead to a redefinition of standard of care.
AIMS: We analysed the number of procedures, indications, and in-hospital mortality rates of all patients undergoing isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (sAVR) or transvascular (TV-) and transapical (TA-) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) from 2012 to 2015 in Germany. METHODS AND RESULTS: More than 31,000 aortic valve procedures were performed in 2015 in Germany, representing a total increase of 4.5% over 2014. TV-TAVI accounts for 13,108 of these procedures, with an increase of 21%, whereas the numbers of isolated sAVR and TA-TAVI decreased slightly. Age, frailty, high risk, and patients' choice were the main reasons for a catheter-based intervention. In 2015, the in-hospital mortality rate after TV-TAVI decreased to 3.4%, approaching that of sAVR (2.9%), despite a considerably higher baseline risk. A stratified analysis according to the German aortic valve (AKL) score demonstrated a further decrease of the in-hospital mortality for TV-TAVI, showing a lower in-hospital mortality rate than expected in all risk groups. Importantly, this also accounts for the lowest risk group with an AKL score <3% showing an in-hospital mortality rate of 1.7%, which is now comparable to that of sAVR (1.5%). In all other risk groups, the in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing TV-TAVI was lower than in patients undergoing sAVR. CONCLUSIONS: Mortality after TV-TAVI keeps decreasing over the last years and equals that of SAVR in the lowest risk cohort in the meanwhile. All TV-TAVI patients have significantly lower observed than expected mortality, which will further lead to a redefinition of standard of care.
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