Samip Vasaiwala
St. Joseph’s Hospital, USA
Publications
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Research Article
Comparative Effectiveness of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) in Nonagenarians Compared with Younger Patients
Author(s): Pasquale Marotta*, Samip Vasaiwala, Philip Lacombe, Kelsey Klingel, Scott Buchanan, Marco Diaz and David Butzel
Background: TAVR has garnered worldwide acceptance as a suitable alternative to surgical AVR in many clinical situations, particularly in the elderly. Our goal was to study whether some of the known benefits from TAVR might be superseded by risks in the nonagenarian population [1]. Methods: Using Cox proportional hazards method, we retrospectively analyzed 1246 patients age > 50 years undergoing TAVR at our institution from the STS/ACC TVT database between 2010-2020. Patients age > 90 were compared with younger patients with coprimary endpoints of inpatient mortality and major bleeding requiring transfusion, 1-yr mortality, and 30-day all cause readmission. Results: Baseline demographic, clinical characteristics, and unadjusted outcomes in primary endpoints are presented in Table 1. Primary endpoints did not .. Read More»