Cedars-Sinai investigators are leaders in the innovation and use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with balloon-expandable valves.
Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc.Aug 31 2023 They now show that redo TAVR procedures are both safe and effective when compared with situations in which patients with similar risk profiles undergo the same procedure for the first time.
"We now know that redo TAVR with balloon-expandable valves may be a reasonable treatment for failed TAVR procedures in select patients," said Raj Makkar, MD, Cedars-Sinai's vice president of Cardiovascular Innovation and Intervention and the study's senior author. "This is increasingly important, as the patients treated with TAVR are younger than they were a decade ago, meaning they will likely need a repeat procedure at some point in their lifetime.
"Our findings also suggest that redo TAVR was associated with a significant improvement in quality of life," said Makkar, who is also the associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, director of the Interventional Cardiology Division in the Department of Cardiology, and the Stephen R. Corday, MD, Chair in Interventional Cardiology.
Related StoriesTo generate their findings, Makkar and team utilized the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry-;a national database of all consecutive patients undergoing commercial TAVR in the United States.
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