Ghanwa Alam
Frontier Medical & Dental College Abbottabad, Pakistan
Publications
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Research Article
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR): A Retrospective Analysis from a Tertiary Care Hospital
Author(s): Muhammad Ammad Khan* and Ghanwa Alam
Objective: To compare the post-operative complication rate in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation [TAVI] vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement [SAVR] within one week of the operation. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study in which two separate cohorts of patients would be included. The first group is of patients who undergo traditional open-heart surgery at our hospital for valve replacement, whereas the other cohort would be of patients who undergo valve replacement procedure using TAVI. Records of all the patients who underwent TAVI and SAVI in the last 5 years preceding the survey and fulfilling our inclusion criteria would be included in our study using purposive sampling method until the desired sample size is achieved. The inclusion criteria include patients who underwent primary valve replacement surgery at our institute th.. Read More»