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Outcomes ‘worse than expected’ when TAVR fails and surgery is required

from Cardiovascular Business

Outcomes ‘worse than expected’ when TAVR fails and surgery is required Cardiovascular Business Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has gained considerable popularity in recent years, but device failures still occur from time to time, leading to a second TAVR or a surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). To track how such failures impacted outcomes, researchers tracked 123 patients who underwent SAVR following a failed TAVR, sharing their findings in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. All data came from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (STS ACSD), and the procedures took place between July 2011 and March 2015. READ MORE

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