Trends in Use of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Age

Art Sedrakyan; Sanket S Dhruva; Tianyi Sun; Jialin Mao; Mario F L Gaudino; Rita F Redberg

doi:10.1001/jama.2018.9938

Trends in Use of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Age

JAMA. 2018 Aug 14;320(6):598-600. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.9938.

Authors

Art Sedrakyan¹, Sanket S Dhruva², Tianyi Sun¹, Jialin Mao¹, Mario F L Gaudino³, Rita F Redberg⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
² Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, New Haven.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco.

Abstract

This study uses National Inpatient Sample data to characterize trends in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in age groups 55 years and older in the United States from 2012 to 2015.

MeSH terms

Age Distribution
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aortic Valve / surgery*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / trends*

Abstract

MeSH terms

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