Five-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-29-2020
Publication Title
The New England journal of medicine
Keywords
Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aortic Valve; Aortic Valve Insufficiency; Aortic Valve Stenosis; Cohort Studies; Echocardiography; Female; Health Status; Heart Valve Prosthesis; Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; Humans; Incidence; Intention to Treat Analysis; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Postoperative Complications; Risk Factors; Stroke; Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement; Treatment Outcome
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There are scant data on long-term clinical outcomes and bioprosthetic-valve function after transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) as compared with surgical aortic-valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis and intermediate surgical risk.
METHODS: We enrolled 2032 intermediate-risk patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis at 57 centers. Patients were stratified according to intended transfemoral or transthoracic access (76.3% and 23.7%, respectively) and were randomly assigned to undergo either TAVR or surgical replacement. Clinical, echocardiographic, and health-status outcomes were followed for 5 years. The primary end point was death from any cause or disabling stroke.
RESULTS: At 5 years, there was no significant difference in the incidence of death from any cause or disabling stroke between the TAVR group and the surgery group (47.9% and 43.4%, respectively; hazard ratio, 1.09; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.95 to 1.25; P = 0.21). Results were similar for the transfemoral-access cohort (44.5% and 42.0%, respectively; hazard ratio, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.87 to 1.20), but the incidence of death or disabling stroke was higher after TAVR than after surgery in the transthoracic-access cohort (59.3% vs. 48.3%; hazard ratio, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.02 to 1.71). At 5 years, more patients in the TAVR group than in the surgery group had at least mild paravalvular aortic regurgitation (33.3% vs. 6.3%). Repeat hospitalizations were more frequent after TAVR than after surgery (33.3% vs. 25.2%), as were aortic-valve reinterventions (3.2% vs. 0.8%). Improvement in health status at 5 years was similar for TAVR and surgery.
CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with aortic stenosis who were at intermediate surgical risk, there was no significant difference in the incidence of death or disabling stroke at 5 years after TAVR as compared with surgical aortic-valve replacement. (Funded by Edwards Lifesciences; PARTNER 2 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01314313.).
Clinical Institute
Cardiovascular (Heart)
Department
Cardiology
Recommended Citation
Makkar, Raj R; Thourani, Vinod H; Mack, Michael J; Kodali, Susheel K; Kapadia, Samir; Webb, John G; Yoon, Sung-Han; Trento, Alfredo; Svensson, Lars G; Herrmann, Howard C; Szeto, Wilson Y; Miller, D Craig; Satler, Lowell; Cohen, David J; Dewey, Todd M; Babaliaros, Vasilis; Williams, Mathew R; Kereiakes, Dean J; Zajarias, Alan; Greason, Kevin L; Whisenant, Brian K; Hodson, Robert W.; Brown, David L; Fearon, William F; Russo, Mark J; Pibarot, Philippe; Hahn, Rebecca T; Jaber, Wael A; Rogers, Erin; Xu, Ke; Wheeler, Jaime; Alu, Maria C; Smith, Craig R; and Leon, Martin B, "Five-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement." (2020). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 2816.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/publications/2816
