Updated 5-Year TAVR vs SAVR Outcomes in Low-Risk Patients: An Interview With Drs. Marin-Cuartas and Heuts

In this outstanding interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, CTSNet JANS Editor and cardiac surgeon at the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at Leipzig Heart Centre University Hospital in Leipzig, SN, Germany; and Samuel Heuts, a cardiothoracic surgeon in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Maastricht University Medical Center in Maastricht, LI, about a paper they authored titled “Updated 5-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis at Low- to Intermediate-Surgical Risk,” published in Heart, a journal produced by the British Medical Journal.  

They discussed the motivations behind the creation of this paper and provided insights into its Bayesian hierarchical design. Key findings included the five-year all-cause mortality rates and the risk of stroke associated with the procedures. They also referenced other studies with similar findings, such as a recently published paper from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on the “Six-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients With Aortic Stenosis.”  

Finally, they explored the future of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement.  

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