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Mortality While Waiting for Aortic Valve Replacement

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)01324-1/abstract

Author(s)

S. Chris Malaisrie, Eileen McDonald, Jane Kruse, Zhi Li, Edwin C. McGee, Travis O. Abicht, Hyde Russell, Patrick M. McCarthy, Adin-Cristian Andrei

The authors explored the impact of wait time for AVR in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis using a single institution database. For patients who were recommended to undergo AVR, wait time mortality at 3 weeks was 1.2% for those scheduled for AVR and 6.9% for those who declined AVR. Wait time mortality for pts undergoing AVR was 3.7% at 3 mos and 11.6% at 6 mos. Prolonged wait time mortality was higher than surgical mortality.